Several persons including a police officer and two Venezuelans are now homeless after a fire completely destroyed an Agricola residence yesterday afternoon.
In an interview with Stabroek News, one of the now homeless persons, Dennis Matthews, a police officer who lived at the Agricola residence with his grandmother, mother and brother, said that around 14:45 hrs he was returning from a GTT Fibre Kiosk to his home when he was alerted by his mother screaming that he get his grandmother out of the house as a fire had started.