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Taxi driver seeks compensation for property damage
A West Coast Demerara resident is seeking compensation after a utility pole belonging to the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) collapsed on Monday causing damage to his fence.
Taxi driver, Winston McKenzie
Winston McKenzie, of Crane Old Road, West Coast Demerara, said that he inquired about compensation late Monday afternoon when technicians of the company visited the area to replace the utility pole outside his home.
Two additional poles at adjacent properties also fell Monday morning. The poles, which accommodated both GTT and Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) wires, had become weakened. They fell because their bases were rotten.
During the GTT technicians’ visit Monday, the man said that he was informed that a supervisor from the company’s office will visit him to discuss the matter further. But McKenzie is sceptical that compensation will be forthcoming as on an earlier occasion when a pole collapsed damaging his fence, he was forced to do his own repairs without compensation.
As at yesterday afternoon no supervisor had made contact with McKenzie. “I’m hoping this time it will be different,” said the man. He said that because of the hanging GPL and GTT wires on his fence and gate Monday, neither he nor the members of his family wanted to take the chance to venture out.
The man, who is a taxi driver by profession, said that the situation had resulted in him losing an entire day of work and his wife, a teacher, and their four children were unable to attend school.
According to the man the pole outside his home was “halfway suspended” since Sunday but collapsed unto his fence by Monday morning, bringing down with it two other poles. McKenzie said that he was initially under the impression that the fallen poles belonged to GPL but was told otherwise, when technicians of the power company visited Monday morning to re-mount electrical wires.
The incident however prompted a maintenance exercise by GPL which entailed efforts to secure a number of leaning poles along the Crane Old Road.
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