After eight years of dedication and hard work, a Glasgow couple was faced with a homeowner’s worst nightmare, a fire, of so far unknown origin, destroying their three-bedroom home, located at Lot 821 Glasgow Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, yesterday at about 10:15 am.
An eyewitness told Stabroek News “When I ran out of my yard, there was smoke coming out at the back of the house, there were no flames and everybody start forming a bucket brigade, to assist in dousing the fire”.
Abigail Riddle, 52, market vendor, was sitting on a piece of wood in front of her house staring at it with reddened eyes contemplating her next move. When Stabroek News spoke with her, she said that she was at the New Amsterdam market when