Woman seeks help as home on verge of collapse

Sascha Wilson and Kellyann Lemessy

For the second time in 15 years, a Mayaro resident is facing homelessness.

Cepep worker Akeisha Roodal, 38, lost her first home to a landslip in February 2009.

She is again facing a similar situation and is now pleading with the Mayaro Rio Claro Regional Corporation and the Ministry of Works and Transport to help her save her second home.

Roodal said the pillars supporting her two-bedroom home at Begorat Trace, St Ann’s Village, are cracking and she believes it’s because water is undermining her home.

Unable to afford the necessary drainage infrastructure around her property, Roodal is pleading for assistance.

Due to where her home is situated, she said water from the neighbour’s properties runs into her property and it’s worse when rain falls.

“The first house caved down and now the second is on the brink of falling because when the rain starts to fall what going on with me is because the pressure of the water is coming down the hill (towards my house),” she lamented.

Roodal told Guardian Media she and her former husband purchased the land and she had been living there for 18 years. She lamented that she worked hard to build her first house, a concrete structure, but only lived there for four years before it was destroyed. Roodal said she received no compensation from the Government and was forced to rent.

After hard work and sacrifice, she built her second home about 50 feet from her first house. She moved in last March but she is still struggling to complete it. She has two children, aged 21 and 22, but they do not live with her. In June, she went to the corporation seeking help, but to date she has received no response.

“I looking for some kind of help, like I calling on Town and Country to intervene in this matter and also the Ministry of Works because is drainage I need around my place and in the front and in the back and I have no money to help put out. Is Cepep I works,” she lamented.

Guardian Media could not reach any officials from the corporation for a comment yesterday.

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