Panic continued to grip the Essequibo Coast as inmates of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming intensified their rampage, setting fires to a dormitory and other buildings in the compound last night.This was after dozens, who broke out from the facility on Wednesday, returned voluntarily yesterday afternoon.The fire was started around 19:30 hours and by the time firefighters brought it under control near 21:00 hours, the female number three dorm,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, which housed about 20 inmates, and the tailor shop were completely destroyed.It is still not clear what caused the sudden outrage last night, but authorities are hoping to get to the bottom of it before the situation escalates.The New Opportunity Corp, Essequibo Coast.Last night’s actions by the student took on a more violent approach as this time around they armed themselves with cutlasses and other dangerous instruments from the facility’s tool room, which they had broken into.The inmates first set fire to the Female Number Three dorm, and managed to keep public-spirited persons and fire fighters at bay and from accessing the burning building.Armed police ranks were deployed and they too were in for a surprise from the young inmates.A few rounds were discharged into the air in an apparent attempt to scare the youths into submission, but they responded by shutting down the electricity supply to the facility.This tit-for-tat scenario continued as the inmates turned their attention to the tailor shop, which housed uniforms,Wholesale Jerseys, bed sheets and other similar materials.Aided by a strong wind coming in from the coast, the fire briefly threatened other dorms, including those housing the youngest inmates.However,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, authorities managed to free the little ones averting a possible catastrophe.Eventually, the fires were brought under control and the police settled down to the task of rounding up the marauding inmates.They subsequently managed to round up several of them who were armed with an assortment of makeshift weapons.SurrenderBut the task of capturing the ring leaders proved more difficult as about 16 of them who were armed with cutlasses had holed up in the sports room, daring the police to enter.This led to the police contemplating the use of tear gas to force them out.However, this was not necessary as the inmates, minus two, surrendered shortly before 23:00hrs.Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council Region Two, Parmanand Persaud, who was at the scene last night declined to comment on what was taking place at the time.Reports reaching this newspaper indicated that the authorities were warned that there was something major brewing ever since personnel from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport visited the facility.A source at the NOC informed that one inmate who was considered a ‘cochore’ by the others, had hinted that the ring leaders had procured gasoline and matches, with a view to setting fire to the buildings.A search was carried out, but the authorities failed to unearth anything.“I don’t know what is the motive for this sudden outrage. These children are so comfortable. They get three square meals,” the source said.Two of the beaten NOC guards.Up to late last night police and NOC authorities were still trying to restore calm to the facility.On Wednesday night the inmates, both male and female, overpowered guards at the juvenile detention centre, badly beating guards, after breaking down doors and smashing windows in their frenzied bid to flee the facility, which normally has a population of over 200.However their freedom was short-lived as they all returned to their dorms by late Thursday afternoon. Some were captured while the vast majority, aware of the hunt by police and the army, and braced with hunger, returned voluntarily.According to reports, on Wednesday night, one of the inmates managed to avoid lockdown and waited for the wardens to retire before shattering the locks of the various dormitories, letting his fellow inmates out.Well plannedA source said that from all appearances the breakout was well planned as all the inmates who were in six separate dormitories, simultaneously began freeing themselves.One terrified staffer at the NOC told this newspaper that around 19:15 hours, he heard loud banging coming from the locked dorms, and he decided to investigate. However by the time he got close to the area where the noise was coming from,Jerseys NFL Cheap, it was too late – the inmates had already broken free and came charging towards him.The staff who is known in the NOC as ‘Sargie’ received a sound thrashing from the delinquent youths, some of whom stormed their way out of the compound.‘Sargie’, a Supervisor, recounted that the whole incident evolved from an ar