TIMES UNLUCKY Family business suffers another setback in Ray Ray Market
children, three of whom are still in school.
She said that she has been in business for about 10 years and the retail business is her sole means of survival.
“A nuh all a wi a go be lawyer and doctor. Some a wi affi sell and me a sell so that me can send mi pickney dem a school. Mi a try hard because mi nuh wah none a dem end up a cemetery or dung a GP [General Penitentary]. How mi a go help them get a good education when every time wi fi sell, we get burn out?” she lamented.
Headley said that the shop is a family business, and its destruction last left more than 10 children without school supplies.
INVESTED TOO MUCH
“Wi sell khaki, juice, clothes, all the little things dem fi get a money for back to school,” Anneke Cowon, another family member who worked in the shop, said.
Sasha Barrett said that she does not know what to do because they have invested so much in the business.
“Mi can’t even estimate how much wi lose, enuh, because some a di things dem weh wi have never pay for yet,” she said, shaking her head.
Frustrated by the recent events, Headley said that the Government needs to step up and help them because they are suffering.
“We a tax payer and wi naah benefit. Foreign people come yah and get better treatment than we. A di third time dis wi a get bun dung and nobody nuh come to wi. Not KSAC, not the man weh collect the rent, and we affi pay fi deh yah so. How that fair to we?” she asked.
With three children to send to school, Headley is determined to get back on her feet, but she said that she is tired of losing things when all she is trying to do is pave a way for herself and her family.
Mi tiad a it now, man. Mi a go set up back and start again because mi want mi pickney dem come out to supm. A nuff people reach somewhere inna life and dem come from a poor family. Mi wah mi pickney dem come out to supm,” she said.