A major fire in Mahdia, Guyana

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link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 1:06:52 PM 
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20 school children died in dormitory - many others injured. This is too sad.

link ray Joined: Feb 7, 2003
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5/22/23, 1:18:00 PM 
just heard...may their souls rest in peace

link Discourse Joined: Jan 23, 2013
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5/22/23, 1:18:18 PM 
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WoW!!! Major disaster.

Local news reports said those who perished were females in the dormitory for girls.


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RIP and Condolences to all concerned.

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 1:22:28 PM 
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Mahdia

Mahdia was established in 1884, by the Africans after their emancipation. After the Africans were emancipated a group of them begin their journey in search of gold. They travelled the county of Berbice and the East Coast of Demerara in hopes of finding such. The town was then expanded by the British Consolidated Mining Company into a mining exploration and Colonial Administrative Offices were established. At this stage, the only way to access the town was by water. Giving the need to link Mahdia to Bartica via trail, a bridge was constructed over the Garraway Stream in November 1933. It was named Denham Suspension bridge after the then Colonial Governor Sir Edward Denham. The bridge is suspended by cables, thus bearing the word suspension in its name. To date the bridge is still in use and has become a tourist site.

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 1:23:05 PM 
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Horrific

link anthonyp Joined: Nov 2, 2009
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5/22/23, 1:24:46 PM 
A five-year-old boy, identified as Adoni, perished in the fire which engulfed the dormitory for girls at the Mahdia Secondary School late Sunday night and into Monday morning.



There were an estimated 57 girls who resided in the dormitory. They were from the mountain villages of Chenapau, Karisparu, Micobie and El Paso.

A total of 19 girls have been confirmed dead, health authorities in the Region have confirmed.


When the blaze was put out, the News Room understand that 14 bodies were pulled from the rubble.

Of the children who managed to escape the building, 29 were transported to the Mahdia district hospital, where five died.

One student died on the way to Georgetown, a senior health official confirmed.


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link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 1:26:11 PM 
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I’ve been to Orinduik. but never to Mahdia. This is heartbreaking.

cry cry cry

link anthonyp Joined: Nov 2, 2009
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5/22/23, 1:27:44 PM 
Gouveia described the operation as “a national effort”, saying all major local airlines responded immediately.

Getting into Mahdia continues to be problematic, with Gouveia describing it as a “battle.”

“There was a lot of lighting and thunder,” Gouveia related, but he said “the pilots were very brave, very determined” as the authorities tried to save who they can.

Gouveia said it was the worst among the tragedies he has seen in his lifetime working in search and rescue operations.

“These children did not deserve to die like this,” Gouveia stated.


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link anthonyp Joined: Nov 2, 2009
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5/22/23, 1:28:38 PM 
RIP little ones... heatbreaking news to wake up to cry

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 1:51:03 PM 
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So sad- I’m sure most of these young girls are indigenous Guyanese.
Locked dormitories are always bad news.

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5/22/23, 1:57:00 PM 
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Most of them are indigenous Guyanese from small villages near the Pakaraima mountain range. Four cousins, twin sisters and the 5 year old boy identified so far.

Apart from Jeffery, 18 other girls died in the tragedy. They include Jeffrey’s cousins Sabrina John, 16; Loreen Evans, 14; and Belnisa Evans,13. They were all from Karisparu Village. The other girls identified so far are twin sisters, Mary and Martha Dandrade. A five-year-old boy, Adoni also perished also in the fire.


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link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 2:05:09 PM 
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Locked dormitories are always the worst fire hazard - the children could not escape until someone opened the grill.
Take that to the bank. This is heart-breaking.

link StumpCam Joined: Jan 1, 2004
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5/22/23, 2:09:25 PM 
Wow! Sad! Hopefully this brings about some new safety standards for buildings that housed large groups of people! sad

link VIX Joined: Feb 7, 2003
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5/22/23, 2:19:37 PM 
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incomprehensible!
How could that happen? Why did so many die??

link doosra Joined: May 26, 2004
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5/22/23, 2:27:48 PM 
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tragic

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 3:14:00 PM 
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Simple - the person with the padlock key was sleeping.
Villages in this region are home to one of the largest number of Guyanese who are Afro-Amerindians.

The ex-slaves ran as far as they could looking for Eldorado.

link Elsie Joined: Dec 1, 2002
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5/22/23, 3:27:21 PM 
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Chrissy...! this thing happened last night....

Why are you bringing up slavery and ethnicity into this tragedy..

Spare us the history lesson...

R.I.P. to all who perished.. If it's true that the dormitory was locked, then we have to re-examine the purpose of keeping the premises locked..

link tops Joined: Jan 13, 2003
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5/22/23, 3:31:14 PM 
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Extremely sad. sad
cry

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 3:42:03 PM 
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What the hell is wrong with you? Mahdia is an historic town in Guyana because ex-slaves ran to the centre of the country and built the village after emancipation long before it became a town. Most people here don't know a damn thing about Mahdia.
If you have a problem with the history, stay off the thread.

link Elsie Joined: Dec 1, 2002
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5/22/23, 3:53:33 PM 
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There's a time and place for everything...

The main story is about a tragic fire in a high school dormitory in Guyana's countryside.

Kids died... No need to go into their racial makeup, 'Afro-Amerindian', why did you feel the need to mention that...?

You self said that you never been to Mahdia... but yet you're bisecting the people's ethnicity.... less than 24 hours after a major tragedy...

You need to check yourself..

link camos Joined: May 6, 2003
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5/22/23, 3:56:25 PM 
sad! hope there are lessons learned.

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5/22/23, 3:58:54 PM 

link anthonyp Joined: Nov 2, 2009
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5/22/23, 4:15:48 PM 
Four cousins, twin sisters and now two more sisters...

Two sisters were among those killed following a fire that ripped through the Mahdia girls’ dormitory Sunday night/Monday morning.

The girls, Delicia Edwards, 15, and Arianna, 13, were not accounted for when rescue services arrived on the scene. A total of 14 bodies, 13 girls and one boy, were recovered when the fire was put out; Delicia and Arianna were among them.

Five of the 29 girls who were rushed to the Mahdia Hospital died.

The Edwards girls, from Micobie village, were the only girls in the family. Their mother died several years ago while their father worked in the gold mines, their cousin, Lucia Charles, told the News Room.

The girls had one brother who attends school in Georgetown.


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link sudden Joined: Nov 27, 2006
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5/22/23, 4:22:03 PM 
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thanks Chrissy. i thought that bit of history lent some historical and personal context around the people involved in this tragedy.

my heart and condolences go out to the families and the village of Mahdia

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 7:21:23 PM 
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Thanks bro. Cyan help some peeps

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