The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) has now been boosted with 74 new fire-fighters after they completed an 11-week training course at the Leonora Training Centre, West Coast Demerara. The firemen and ...

A female student is suspected of starting a deadly school dormitory fire that killed 19 children in Guyana, after her cell phone was taken away by a dormitory teacher, according to local police.

On May 21, a fire at a high school girls' dormitory caused 20 child deaths in Guyana. The blaze was intentionally lit by a female student who has since been detained and charged with murder.

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 ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — 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 ...

Georgetown, Guyana — Investigators in Guyana believe a fire that killed 19 mostly girls trapped in a school dormitory late on Sunday was deliberately set by a student who was upset that her ...

Fire officials consider a blaze that engulfed the dormitory of a girls’ boarding school in Guyana, killing at least 19 children and shaking the small South American country, to have been ...

At least 19 children died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare three days of national mourning. The fire that ...

A teenager is accused of setting a fire that killed 19 fellow students in Guyana, officials said. She was angry that her phone was taken away as punishment for seeing an older man, police said.

MAHDIA, Guyana -- At least 19 of the 20 people who died in a "horrific" school dormitory fire were children, officials said on Monday, after a blaze tore through the building in the Caribbean ...