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St Joseph mother, children endure years in collapsing home without water or electricity - Barbados Today

A visually impaired single mother who has waited 18 years for government housing assistance is finally the subject of an official investigation by the newly-amalgamated Rural and Urban Development Commission (RUDC), following her urgent plea for help with her dangerously dilapidated home, Barbados TODAY can reveal. Acting chief executive officer Russel Armstrong said he will also be following up with the officer from the former Rural Development…

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A 93-Year-Old Woman Lives in a Shrink without Water, Light and Flies

In the dark, with no running water, no bath, living in an old chink with parts of the roof in the open air, with a foam rubber on the floor like bed and sheets rotten by the dirt to cover itself, without a fridge and making food in a gas cook, with the food exposed to the bugs and "eating the flies", with its rags like clothes only on the top, wounds to the body and with an extreme thinness. In these conditions pauperrims within a "pocilga-housi…

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