Family house goes down
A bulldozer pushing down the Snaggs’ home at Black Rock Main Road. (Ricardo Leacock)
Sat, January 21, 2012 - 12:06 AM
ANOTHER BLACK ROCK, ST MICHAEL FAMILY are now homeless after the house they occupied for over 40 years was demolished after they failed to comply with a court order to remove the house from the property.
On Thursday, January 12, partially blind 64-year-old Coleridge Knight and his 68-year-old cousin Edbert Gladstone Knight, of Griffith Land, Black Rock, were out in the cold after their house was demolished.
Last Thursday, 79-year-old Gwendolyn Snagg, her companion 70-year-old Goulbourne Yearwood, and son 34-year-old Fitzgerald Snagg, of Black Rock Main Road, watched the boards of their home tumble to the ground after being pushed down by a bulldozer.
Pointing out that he was a man of few words, Fitzgerald told the SATURDAY SUN he was disappointed the landowner did not give his family the opportunity to purchase the property. (AH)
Read the full story in today's SATURDAY SUN.
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We had a young able bodied girl broke off a lock ad move into a NHC unit and say she is not leaving, after breaking the law she was given a unit,, could something not be done for these people who really needed help??????? or is this a case of lets help who can help us????
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Comment LinkWell, Fitzgerald did point out that ‘he was a man of few words’, so maybe he did not seek assistance. You can only know of someone’s plight if they ‘ask’.
Every Sam, Cow, Duppy, de Dog and the Cousin going to the newspaper to advertise their plight. Do the same and see what you can come up with man!
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Comment LinkTanya that’s not the point and you know it, This country is in part having a hard time because people who can afford to work, and help themselves are depending on government for a hand out, and these people doing it for the love of a vote, we have people who genuinely needs help, the older folk who gave us a foundation a foundation that the youngsters now bent on destroying are being neglected. Like I said before a young able bodied lady broke the law and put forward a display of arrogance and yet was helped, how then could the ministers who yap all over their faces let this happen to two persons who need real help????? It speaks volumes when someone so young with children have no one to turn to,, as the old saying goes, ten thousand Frenchmen can’t be wrong, thats’s not the point,
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Comment Link@ Andrew Headley…I cannot judge the young lady who unlawfully entered the NHC unit with her very young children. I cannot say she displayed arrogance since I did not speak with her. All that I am saying is that everyone is here of late running to the newspaper begging for a home and it seems to be the ‘thing’ to do. And that if Mr. 34-year old Fitzgerald did the same he also might get lucky!
So you mean to say that the young lady is young and able bodied but that Mr. Fitzgerald is not??!! So what, he is allergic to employment??!! Have you diagnosed him as unfit to work, secondary to laziness?
I thought there used to be a Ministry of Social Transformation that had later evolved into something else. I could be misguided…
I am not doing any “Pointing” I am only “Saying”...
People are free to ask/beg for what they want! If you want your plight exposed then you have to say something. I am not taking sides… I cant save the world…
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Comment LinkOne thing stands out here- COURT ORDER!
Something had to have happened for it to go there. Sad yes. Unfortunate - yes.
BUT court orders are not executed IMMEDIATELY. There is usual a time period right?
And this cannot be compared to the young lady who was kicked out (unforeseen); to someone who knew it was coming.
And social governance aside, a government will not know you need help until you ask.
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Comment LinkSad when family members (your own blood) can’t work together. When then is blood thicker than water?
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