{"id":134,"date":"2011-06-16T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2011\/06\/16\/guyana-visually-impaired-woman-burnt-to-death\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:42:47","slug":"guyana-visually-impaired-woman-burnt-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/latest-news\/guyana-visually-impaired-woman-burnt-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana &#8211; Visually Impaired Woman Burnt to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbimages alignleft size-full wp-image-461\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/new-amsterdam-fire.jpg\" alt=\"New Amsterdam Fire\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/new-amsterdam-fire.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/new-amsterdam-fire-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/new-amsterdam-fire-201x150.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A visually impaired woman was burnt to death Wednesday night inside the house she was occupying at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Dead is 52-year old Hazel Johnson. Her charred remains were found near a door on the bottom flat.<\/p>\n<p>The fire occurred at 31 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. The house was owned by Patrick Benon, who had decades ago headed a secretarial school.<\/p>\n<p>The woman lived there for two years.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The woman is survived by two sons Clairmont, who is in the United States, and Chris who lives in Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Residents told demwaves.com that the area was in blackout. The fire started in a front room of the two-flat building where the woman had occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Another occupant, whose only name is Jean, returned home from church and found the house gutted and all her belongings destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demerarawaves.com\/index.php\/Security\/2011\/06\/09\/woman-dies-in-new-amsterdam-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guyana - Visually impaired woman burnt to death\">Demarara Waves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visually impaired woman was burnt to death Wednesday night inside the house she was occupying at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. Dead is 52-year old Hazel Johnson. Her charred remains were found near a door on the bottom flat. The fire occurred at 31 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. The house was owned by Patrick Benon, who had decades ago headed a secretarial school. The woman lived there for two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}