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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.