A fire was set to the home of a Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) activist on the Corentyne, East Berbice, Region Six, on Tuesday night.
This is the second time in three nights that the suspects have gone to the activist’s home. Guyana Times understands that the first attack was on Saturday, but the men, who managed to open the window, did not go into the building. However, on Tuesday night, they wrenched opened a window and set fire to a plastic chair inside the house. A small section of the wall where the chair was situated was also scorched as a result of the fire.
The burnt chair and scorched wall in the activist’s house
Neighbours saw the flames billowing inside the building and alerted family members of the activist, who were asleep. The fire was quickly extinguished without much damage to the home and belongings inside.
The political activist, speaking under the condition of anonymity, said he and his family are now living in fear, since it is the second time that his house has been targeted since the weekend.
“On Saturday, at about 9 O’clock, two persons come and break the northside window, and my wife and my three children were at home alone and they were screaming for about 10 minutes, and when neighbours came, then they (perpetrators) go away; but they did not get to go into the house,” he related.
He explained that about one and a half weeks ago, two persons riding a motorcycle were in the community enquiring about him and trying to find out where he lives. Also, on Saturday, there were persons in a car driving around the community trying to find out where he lives. Then, hours later, there was the first attack on his home.
“This is political. They did not come to carry away anything, just to destroy property or to get at me,” he insisted.
Meanwhile, another senior official of the same party in Berbice has also called in the Police to investigate threats on his life.
