Fire does cause much destruction

Jan 17, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh when de furniture warehouse start to blaze up, nuff people nearly drop dem phone. The owners tek a serious hit, yes, but dem boys seh is only luck—and maybe a lil prayer—that save half de neighbourhood from turning into extra kindling.

Because when dem video start circulate pun Facebook, is then people really wake up. The warehouse wasn’t out dey minding it own business in some industrial zone. No sah. It was right up among people houses.

Dem boys seh this raise one big question: who decide that warehouse full of wood, foam, glue and Lord-knows-what-else should be living like it renting a room in a housing area? Since when a residential area become a “try ya luck” zone for industrial adventure?

In Guyana, dem boys seh zoning laws is like manners—everybody know about them, but not everybody use them. So you could find a welding shop next to a bedroom, a nightclub sharing wall with a church.

Fire ain’t respect nobody. It don’t care if is business investment or family home. One spark, one bad decision, and whole street could end up on de six o’clock news. And when that happen, everybody start asking questions—after de ashes cool.

Dem boys seh this ain’t about stopping business. Business must grow, yes. But business must also have sense. Industrial and heavy commercial places come with danger—fire, noise, chemicals, trucks—and dem things got no business mixing with people who just want to sleep peaceful and wake up alive.

The authorities need to stop playing catch-up with disaster. Enforce zoning. Tell people plain-plain: residential is residential, and industrial is industrial. Is not rocket science; is common sense.

Dem boys seh if we don’t act now, next time it might not be furniture burning alone. And when house start burning too, everybody will be crying, pointing fingers, and asking why nobody didn’t act sooner.

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