‘Miss Muds’ still hanging on edge

 

In the meantime, Miss Muds wants help to find another home. “Put me somewhere to go. I don’t mind paying a rent. She said she can pay the rent from the combined old age pensions of hers and her husband’s. She said the Government promised to help her find somewhere until her house is repaired but has not told her where they were putting her. She said the organisers of the shelter in Opposition MP Amery Browne’s constituency told her she could stay at the shelter and are feeding, clothing and comforting her, she said. “But for how long?” she asked. Executive director of URP Social, Barrington “Skippy” Thomas, sounding frustrated, said he was advised that a little cleaning up was done on her house after Ramadharsingh’s directive.

 

He added: “The reality is that since the URP was divided into three, no resources have been coming to URP Social. “We have no vehicles, not even a broom. If we want a broom we have to apply to the existing structure and then we get nothing. “We heard there was an official directive that URP Social was to get nothing.” Thomas said members of the programme had to respond to Miss Muds without vehicles, resources or even a broom. “Workers took a yellow band maxi and travelled to Richplain,” he added. Thomas said URP Social is getting a barrage of requests for help in flood-damaged Diego Martin and could not respond. “URP Social is just a paper tiger,” he said. In Cameron Road, Petit Valley in Diego North East, Natalie La Roche was washing clothes and putting them to dry on galvanised sheeting on the ground. La Roche, her three small children, her father and a brother have been homeless since a landslide flattened their house on the hillside during the heavy rains. Since then they have been spending the day in a shed near the destroyed house and staying at different locations at nights La Roche said Diego Martin Central MP Amery Browne said he was trying to get her relocated. “What can you do? Life has to go on. Everybody just coping,” she said.