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With all the gang rape, prostitution, murders, drug trafficking etc....
the talk always direct back to-home, memories of a place they all once had, still hoping to make it , each with his own devise; waiting for the children to return from Canada, for the sister to build an extra room, to win back the money lost in the gamble".
When US President Barack Obama visits in April for the Summit of the Americas, the homeless of Port of Spain will be gone-their city chaos relaced by country quiet.
The Piparo Care Facility is ready for all those who are not drug addicts or mentally challenged.
If it works, by Christmas of next year, this ragged gang will leave the shelter and more into a home. At least that's the plan.
As of November of last year, the Social Development Ministry counted 232 "socially displaced" persons in the capital, 78 in San Fernando and 24 in Arima.
How many of those have been robbed of their minds by drug and destitution, is uncertain.
But the homeless are ready for a chance.
"Tell me where the place is. I will go today" said Tallman, one of the many whose best years were spent in a tree house opposite the Anglican Church at Harris Promenade.
"If you not beating me there, I ready for it.
An old man getting tired. You see this concrete here? I don't want to lie down and dead here one night" said Sylvester, veteran vagrant of Port of Spain, Chaguanas and San Fernando. He knows of what he speaks.
His girlfriend, Cynthia Ramcharan died folded into a shopping cart in which she lived the final weeks of her life cut short by drugs and prostitution and beatings.
Since then, four more have died, poisoned by alcohol, killed by homeless gangs.
And the place they once called home-the Harris Promenade, is no longer a haven, patrolled by security guards willing to use the boot or baton to drive them off.
Social Development Ministry Corporate Communications and Education Unit Manager.
Carol-Ann McKenzie provided the details of the Piparo Care Facility, built on lands squatted upon by Dole Chadee but retrieved after his conviction and execution for multiple murders.
The facility is located near the Piparo Empowerment Centre-a drug rehab facility that is also-in an ultimate irony-on the land stolen by drug trafficking (but never proven) czar Chadee.
The facility cost $34 million, and will be ready by month's end.
the talk always direct back to-home, memories of a place they all once had, still hoping to make it , each with his own devise; waiting for the children to return from Canada, for the sister to build an extra room, to win back the money lost in the gamble".
When US President Barack Obama visits in April for the Summit of the Americas, the homeless of Port of Spain will be gone-their city chaos relaced by country quiet.
The Piparo Care Facility is ready for all those who are not drug addicts or mentally challenged.
If it works, by Christmas of next year, this ragged gang will leave the shelter and more into a home. At least that's the plan.
As of November of last year, the Social Development Ministry counted 232 "socially displaced" persons in the capital, 78 in San Fernando and 24 in Arima.
How many of those have been robbed of their minds by drug and destitution, is uncertain.
But the homeless are ready for a chance.
"Tell me where the place is. I will go today" said Tallman, one of the many whose best years were spent in a tree house opposite the Anglican Church at Harris Promenade.
"If you not beating me there, I ready for it.
An old man getting tired. You see this concrete here? I don't want to lie down and dead here one night" said Sylvester, veteran vagrant of Port of Spain, Chaguanas and San Fernando. He knows of what he speaks.
His girlfriend, Cynthia Ramcharan died folded into a shopping cart in which she lived the final weeks of her life cut short by drugs and prostitution and beatings.
Since then, four more have died, poisoned by alcohol, killed by homeless gangs.
And the place they once called home-the Harris Promenade, is no longer a haven, patrolled by security guards willing to use the boot or baton to drive them off.
Social Development Ministry Corporate Communications and Education Unit Manager.
Carol-Ann McKenzie provided the details of the Piparo Care Facility, built on lands squatted upon by Dole Chadee but retrieved after his conviction and execution for multiple murders.
The facility is located near the Piparo Empowerment Centre-a drug rehab facility that is also-in an ultimate irony-on the land stolen by drug trafficking (but never proven) czar Chadee.
The facility cost $34 million, and will be ready by month's end.
