Denci Jones is in desperate need of a new home and thanks to the intervention of the National Assistance Board (NAB) may soon be getting one.
The 70-year-old lives in a dilapidated wood and wall house in Gibbons Boggs, Christ Church, which has a rotting ceiling and floorboards and is full of clothes and other materials strewn everywhere.
When a WEEKEND NATION team visited, Jones said the issue evolved around a family dispute and she would prefer if she and her two grandchildren could be moved.
“I have been here more than 40 years, I’ve raised my children and grandchildren here but now I want a new place to live for me and my grandchildren,” she said.
Jones said four grandchildren used to live with her but the mother of the youngest ones had taken them away while the remaining, one a student of St Leonard’s Boys’ School and the other a student of the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology, had to take care of buying gas bottles and ice as they had no electricity, neither is there phone service. (CA)
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