Fire victims want to stay on wharf

“Everybody staying right here,” said neighbour Chris-Ann Ramdhanie, 21, who was babysitting young fire victims, Aliesha Joseph, 11, and her ten-month-old sister, Aliyah Allahar, in the absence of their mother, Afesha Noel, at another neighbour’s home when Newsday visited yesterday. “We will build back. No one going anywhere.

It have children going to school right around the area.” Ramdhanie and her family were not affected by the fire and those who escaped have pooled their resources together to help those in need. The majority of persons living on the wharf earn their living from the sea.

Yesterday, led by Ag Fire Sub Officer Durity, officers of the Fire Prevention Unit of the Fire Service returned to the scene to continue investigations. The cause of the fire, however is yet to be determined but eyewitnesses have revealed that it started at the back of the home of fisherman, Alexander Gibbs, who was not at home at the time. The oldest fire victim, pensioner Nellie Ramlochan, 67, was visited by relatives yesterday. She told Newsday she was thankful for life although, like her neighbours, she lost everything in the fire that destroyed the home she shared with her husband, Francis Lee, 67, and daughter Joannah Mohammed.