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Jobless after last month’s mass CEPEP termination, a Princes Town woman is pleading for a new home as ongoing road works have left her house cracked, flooded, and on the brink of collapse.
Kizie Scipio can only leave her Sixth Company Circular Road home wearing garden boots because of the persistent mud caused by water seeping downhill from the roadside. She shares the home with her 18-year-old brother, Levi Swamber. Near tears, she described the conditions she has endured over the past few weeks and her urgent need for relocation.
Scipio was part of a fiery protest in January 2018 at Sixth Company Village, where she and other residents demanded repairs to roads and drains damaged by landslips and heavy rainfall. She said she had already lost two homes—one to a broken roadside drain and another to mud and slush from a major landslip. At the time, she reported the situation to the Princes Town Regional Corporation, the Housing Development Corporation (HDC), and then-MP Dr Lovell Francis.
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