Latest update April 11th, 2025 9:20 AM
Investigators to question owner of burnt Patentia bond
…as conflicting details surface
When investigators picked up the newspaper on Thursday and saw that $50M in medical consumables and equipment were destroyed in the blaze at Patentia Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Wednesday, they
The bond that was burnt at Patentia with $50M in medical consumables and equipment.
were baffled.
At least, this was not what the owner of the property, Roopnarine Satnarine, called Frank, reported to them. In fact, the figures were below $30M.
Furthermore, a claim made that three out of five persons, who were locked up having been caught in Satnarine’s yard, might have started the fire as revenge, also has ranks picking their brains – after all, they never had anyone in custody.
A man was indeed found in the yard two Thursdays ago but he was never locked up because the owner reportedly told police ranks that he didn’t want to press charges. So who really did start that fire?
Kaieteur News understands that the property was insured for $26M.
Firefighters yesterday said that although the investigation is not completed, what they have gathered so far is that the fire was deliberately set at the house and there were signs of forced entry.
Investigators are now trying to figure out the motive for the fire, be it insurance money, a bitter divorce battle or whether it was caused by enemies.
Satnarine had said that he was at work when he was informed that his building was on fire.
”I suspect arson, because it doesn’t have electricity, and I am hearing it is three of the boys who were arrested started the fire,” he said.
He explained that there was medical and electrical equipment, along with consumable medical supplies which in total, would amount to $50M.
According to Satnarine, his brother saw the flames and when he got there, he saw that the door in the lower flat of the property was opened. By the time he called out for neighbours, the fire had spread to the entire building.
Satnarine’s mother, Elaine, who lives a short distance from where her son’s bond is located, said that she was at home when someone called and informed her that the building was on fire a little after 07:00 hrs on Wednesday
”When I went there, the building was on fire and everything destroyed in it. My son had a store in town and he closed it, so all the stocks he moved to the bond, including TV and salon equipment,” the woman said.
Investigators will be questioning the owner of the building.
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