Sunday, February 14, 2016

The November fire at University of Guyana

The fire on on November 24 2015 in Natural Sciences was widely reported, for example by Kaieteur News and Guyana Chronicle. However there were few details given on the losses. According to subsequent reports the wooden ground level building destroyed housed staff offices and storerooms. Losses included lab equipment, textbooks, manuals, notes and so on. Physics in particular was badly hit and has been left without equipment to conduct labs. This comes at a time when moves are being made to restart the full degree programme.
Hopefully the Physics unit will be assisted to get laboratories back in order. As I recall there used to be two functioning laboratories with lab assistants.
The burnt building at the University of Guyana

Burnt office
 at the University of Guyana

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