A major fire in Mahdia, Guyana

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link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 7:22:10 PM 
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Real sad - they were all so,young.

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/22/23, 10:54:31 PM 
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Update
Oh skites the fire was set by one of the students because her phone was taken away

The devastating fire which ripped through the female dormitory at the Mahdia Secondary School was maliciously set by a student of the school, well-placed sources have told the News Room.

The student, the News Room was reliably told, was upset after her phone was taken away over objections by the school that she was engaging in matters dangerous to her well-being with an adult. She had pledged to give “trouble” over the actions taken against her.

The student was seen by other students spraying a substance in the air and then igniting a fire. The fire was set to some mattresses just outside the bathroom area of the dormitory.

link sudden Joined: Nov 27, 2006
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5/22/23, 11:53:57 PM 
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Now historical and personal context around the people involved in this tragedy will come into sharp relief

These young people, their cells and iPads and social media.

What a combustible combination!!!

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 12:27:05 AM 
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The new technologies are creating new dimensions of instability. Young people are obsessed with their phones.

link tops Joined: Jan 13, 2003
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5/23/23, 12:35:48 AM 
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WOW! Just WOW!
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link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 1:28:34 AM 
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Obsession bro. These phones are their lives.

link Emir Joined: Aug 9, 2014
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5/23/23, 1:39:24 AM 
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Very very Sad indeed !!!!

Thanks for sharing the history about this town.

link tops Joined: Jan 13, 2003
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5/23/23, 1:53:18 AM 
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Chrissy, I know. U wouldn't believe me, about a year ago I was listening to the news and the discussion was whether they should remove a pole that was in the middle of a sidewalk in Markham On. So, they were interviewing this 17 years old girl. Her response was...
Well, I think they should remove it... but is like, like I'm walking... and like I'm looking at my phone and like I can walk into it.
My thought, that's Y they should leave it there. razz

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 2:58:34 AM 
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I completely believe you.
I was in a dining room on campus earlier this year. At a table close by were four female students. Each was gazing into her phone and they never spoke with one another.
Before I retired a student came to explain her late assignment. Her friend was in the hospital. She was crossing the road near the stadium and was hit by a car and she was brain dead. I suggested that her friend was brain dead long before she was hit.
They watch the phone not traffic.
Madness bro.

link CricSham Joined: Aug 24, 2003
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5/23/23, 3:10:25 AM 
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Elsie, you are in a minority here my dear. I’m thinking, perhaps, you don’t live in the United States. Everything in today’s world must be viewed through the lens of “cultural awareness” and “institutional racism”.

link nick2020 Joined: Jul 2, 2012
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5/23/23, 3:47:56 AM 
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Condolences to all. Heartbreaking news.

link Dukes Joined: Dec 6, 2002
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5/23/23, 1:12:45 PM 
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I remember back in the day, one of Charlie's class mates, lost both her parents in a fire in Jamaica .Both bodies were found at the grill door because in the panic to get out they could not find the keys to the locked grill.

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 1:18:57 PM 
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Same thing happened in Trinidad with a seven year old - one of my little babies.
The window was grilled and she could not get out.
Locked grilled doors/windows are worse than gas in a night/early morning fire no matter how it starts.
This is horrific.

link defeyeant Joined: Feb 1, 2003
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5/23/23, 3:34:22 PM 
Absolutely Heart wrenching news.

link SnoopDog Joined: Jan 24, 2004
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5/23/23, 5:11:51 PM 
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I'm guessing there were no smoke detectors in the dormitory?

These things are so preventable. I feel for the family of these poor children.

link WI_cricfan Joined: Oct 12, 2006
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5/23/23, 5:35:25 PM 
This is indeed tragic.

I hope building codes will change after this

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 6:06:43 PM 
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These areas don’t have basic roads and you’re looking for smoke detectors.

link Dukes Joined: Dec 6, 2002
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5/23/23, 7:03:19 PM 
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I hope building codes will change after this


When last you went to Guyana???

link BeatDball Joined: Jul 20, 2014
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5/23/23, 7:32:53 PM 
Sad, but more cruel, horrific & malicious that a fellow student could do that!

link Cricket_101 Joined: Feb 15, 2011
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5/23/23, 9:48:17 PM 
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Very Sad Indeed... RIP little souls.

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/23/23, 11:23:13 PM 
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What did I tell allyuh. Locked in with a grilled door

AP
By Bert Wilkinson
23 May, 2023 03:50 PM
3 mins to read

Investigators in Guyana believe a fire that killed 19 mostly girls trapped in a school dormitory was deliberately set by a student who was upset that her mobile phone was confiscated, a top official said.

The suspect in the fire late Sunday (local time), who is among several injured people, had been disciplined by the dorm administrator for having an affair with an older man, National Security Adviser Gerald Gouveia said. The student allegedly threatened to torch the dorm and later set a fire in a bathroom area, Gouveia said.

The fire raced through the wood, concrete and iron-grilled building after it had been locked for the night by the dorm administrator — or house mother — to prevent the girls from sneaking out, Gouveia said.

“She did this out of love for them. She felt she was forced to do so because many of them leave the building at night to socialise,” Gouveia told The Associated Press. “This is a very sad situation, but the state is going to work with the students and the families to provide all the support they need.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/guyana-dorm-fire-that-killed-19-was-deliberately-set-by-student-official-says/ZX3FQIGXDRAWXKOM6C2DBSZ7YY/

link StumpCam Joined: Jan 1, 2004
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5/24/23, 2:30:07 AM 
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Instead of locking the dorm, they could’ve employed security guards!
I once lived in a dorm, in Guyana, with high fences and security guards to prevent such a thing!
Yes, it felt like a prison, but that’s what was required to keep people children safe! And that was over 40 years ago!

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/24/23, 2:59:34 AM 
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Bro these days di security guards would be checking di girls.
I had teenaged friends right there in GT who would meet boyfriends after parents were asleep and head to parties. Teenagers will be teenagers and some a dem are careless on steroids. It is a very complex matter - security v fire safety.

link Dukes Joined: Dec 6, 2002
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5/24/23, 8:37:05 AM 
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Sadly,most of the people on this board have little idea as to the challenges faced by people at the bottom rung of the ladder in the Caribbean.The grooming of pre-teen indigenous girls and just how common pre teen sex is among them is mind-boggling

link Chrissy Joined: Nov 14, 2002
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5/24/23, 11:04:36 AM 
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Yep

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