Sports journalist Rawle Welch has lost his Willian Street, Kitty, Georgetown home after a fire of unknown origin engulfed the edifice on Thursday.
Reports are that the fire started just before 16:00h, and Welch was not at home at the time. The fire spread quickly and caught a second building, but by then ranks of the Guyana Fire Service were already on scene, and that blaze was extinguished.
His wife, who was inside the building, has suffered burn injuries and has been taken to a city hospital.