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Mobil Service Station bombing
…Vendors displaced; businesses damaged
(Kaieteur News) – Several businesses in close proximity to the Mobil Service Station located at Regent and King Streets, Georgetown have been damaged as a result of the bombing which occurred on Sunday night.
Pizza Vendor: Joshua Edwards
Kaieteur News understands that the impact of the bombing was evident in some buildings on Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.
The windows of several businesses were shattered and some products destroyed.
A vendor told Kaieteur News that the impact of the blast shattered windows and caused significant damage to a number of buildings nearby. Several of the businesses are now forced to replace their windows, air conditioning units as well as products.
The Acme building located across the street from the Mobil Service Station as well as the cambio and Chinese store behind it were all affected.
Small business owner, Crystal Wayne of ‘Crissy Exotic and Beauty Corner’ who operates out of the Acme building posted a video on her social media platform to inform her customers about what occurred.
Her beauty store, located on the third floor of the Acme building, was almost unrecognizable Monday morning. The young woman was unable to open the store due to the magnitude of the damage.
She spent the day cleaning and taking stock of the number of damaged products. In the video published on her social media platforms, the businesswoman was seen removing the shattered glass and other materials that were scattered on the floor along with her beauty items.
Meanwhile, several vendors have been displaced as a result of Sunday night’s deadly bombing that claimed the life of six-year-old Soraya Bourne and left seven others injured.
Joshua Edwards, who usually sells pizza in front the service station, told Prime News on Monday that about six vendors who sell outside the station were displaced. He said it is a “slight” inconvenience considering that others suffered greater losses.
“Being displaced for us is a slight problem. You make every disadvantage an advantage. Thank God that we’re on wheels so we could move…I heard there was an explosion and then looked and saw the smoke rising. I didn’t know what was going on but we got to keep pushing,” Edwards told reporters in an interview aired on Prime News.
The young man, who sells pizza to raise money to attend law school, said that many of the vendors who plied their trade outside of the service station have since relocated.
“Some of my colleagues were affected but I don’t know where they are today,” he said noting that he cannot give up.
“I have to keep going because you know I am doing it for law. I feel so bad for the six-year-old who passed away and for everything that happened. We have to do better as a nation and that’s what I am doing this for, to make sure that we have human development that we have proper systems put in place that these things don’t happen again,” he explained.
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