COOPER’S PEN, Trelawny — Even as the Government mobilised multi-agency help for about 40 families whose houses were demolished a day earlier, a group of irate residents of Cooper’s Pen in Trelawny staged a peaceful protest Wednesday, demanding more. The residents said they want to be relocated, after their houses were allegedly demolished by the owner of land some of them have occupied for decades.

The protesters insisted that the Government, or the landowner, must provide them with alternative accommodation. They said the temporary tents provided by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), in which some of them spent Tuesday night, are not enough.

“We get tent last night, so we can lay a head for the night. What about today? What is going to happen? We want to know where we are going to relocate to. What is going to happen to the people them that their house push down?” asked demonstrator Jessica Haye.