Monday, May 6, 2024

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EVONE MARSHALL has a problem: at 62 years old, she is living in squalor and looking for a way out.
The house in which she lives, in Collymore Rock, St Michael, is in a dilapidated state and she thinks it’s just waiting for a high wind to come and blow it down, finishing off what Tropical Storm Tomas failed to do three years ago.
It was in the wake of Tomas that Marshall realised that she was living in what was rendered a shell by termites that had taken up residence in the pine structure she called home “from the time I come along”.
But when one side of the house fell off yesterday morning and landed on the next door neighbour’s home, it was time for Marshall to send out an SOS to Barbados.
“Can I sleep in this house tonight [last night]?” she asked. (JS)

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