By Antonio Dey
The caretaker of the neighbouring boys’ residence yesterday detailed how he helped to rescue girls from the burning Mahdia dormitory – including his daughter – after kicking down a door.
Steve Jerome, father of the 5-year-old boy who died in the fire, was the first to testify under questioning by attorney-at-law Keoma Griffith who has been appointed to lead evidence in the inquiry.
The much-anticipated public hearing of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Mahdia dormitory fire which claimed the lives of 20 children commenced yesterday at the commission’s Middle Street, Georgetown, secretariat.