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T&T ...A cowshed for a home

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-17 21:24:19 

A cowshed for a home
Bar­rack­pore fam­i­ly seek­ing help to re­build

When a 6.8 mag­ni­tude earth­quake rocked T&T a year ago, 78-year-old Sug­a­nee Sam and her daugh­ter Soo­ma­tee hud­dled to­geth­er, pray­ing that their home con­struct­ed of rust­ed gal­vanised sheets and dis­card­ed wood would not col­lapse on them.

It was a heart-pal­pi­tat­ing event sim­i­lar to what they suf­fered in 2017 when pieces of their roof blew away as Trop­i­cal Storm Bret beat down in T&T.

With the 2019 rainy sea­son here, the Bar­rack­pore fam­i­ly of five be­lieves that their home is just one ad­verse weath­er away from be­ing torn apart with them in­side. While help has been hard to come by, a few Pe­nal res­i­dents are hop­ing to gath­er build­ing ma­te­ri­als to help con­struct a new home for the fam­i­ly.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Sug­a­nee’s home in the bush­es off Rig Road yes­ter­day, even their scrawny pet dogs were strug­gling to sur­vive.


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sgtdjones 2019-07-17 21:26:02 

Hundreds like these homes exist in Paradise.

No water , no electricity.

Where did they spend the billions in Oil and Gas royalties?



sad sad