A property owner has been left counting millions in losses after his two-storey building at Lot 2 Barnwell Public Road, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was destroyed by fire on Thursday.
Vickram Ramai who resides in Tuschen New Housing Scheme, Esse-quibo, told Stabroek News that he received a phone call around 7:20 pm informing him that his building was on fire, He rents the building to Chinese nationals who run a supermarket at the bottom flat and occupy the top flat of the building.
“At the time when I constructed the building it cost 30 million dollars.” he disclosed that when he went to insure the building, both of the insurance companies that he visited refused to give him insurance since he was renting to Chinese.