Pensioner homeless after fire guts home, mechanic shop

A 67-year-old pensioner of Kwakwani, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) is now homeless after losing his $15M home and business to a fire on Monday.
Reports are that the fire started at Michael Primo’s home at Kwakwani, 2nd Phase Housing Scheme at about 18:00h.

Moments after the fire, Primo, stated that he had no clue as to what may have caused the fire.
“I cried all day, I cried like nobody was there…I’m a pensioner and this is where I relax and this is what I end up with, a fire of unknown [origin] I don’t know how it was caused because I wasn’t at home,” he stated.
“I only had an electric stove and my house was equipped that you cannot cook and bake at the same time because the circuit and the breakers that I had was equipped in way in which you cannot go above a certain amperage it triggered on the house so it was hard for me to believe that it could be an electrical problem because the main breaker was at the entrance of the building.”
Though he was not able to sum up a cost for the amount of damages that the fire had on his household appliances, he recalled the items that were lost whilst also stating that the fire destroyed his tools in his downstairs mechanical shop.
“Each room had a bed, I had three chair sets, I had a fridge, an AC, a freezer, a chair set, an electric stove, a dining set, I had a cupboard and I had a music set. The building alone is about 15 million dollars. And the rest of the things. I can’t really estimate them.”
He added, “There was a mechanic shop downstairs we used to do mechanic work for people general electrical work, AC wiring building and all these different things you know? And then we used to do mechanical work for cars.”
The Guyana Fire Service has since launched an investigation. (G2)