My children need to be in school
For the past five years, TrudyAnn Lewis has been without a stable home for her and her three children.
The 32-year-old said she was forced out of her babyfather’s home, and has been moving from place to place since.
“Mi haffi a move all round at Old Harbour, so ‘til mi end up a mi grandmother now. It’s me, mi son, mi daughter and mi grandmother pan one bed,” she told THE STAR.
She said she managed to get a job as a janitor at a primary school in Old Harbour, but lost that job after she became ill last year.
Now she has to find other means to provide for her children. “I’m not woking. Mi haffi walk and a beg. Mi nuh want dem (her children) come and walk in my footsteps. Mi want dem to come and work, work dem own money dat nobody nuh haffi tek no step a dem,” she said. “Sometime mi hardly have anything to cook, mi haffi a walk and beg something to cook.”
She said her children display great academic potential, but are missing too many days from school to fully realise it.
“Sometime all one week, two week, dem nuh go school, and dem, teacher said dem have potential but dem just need fi come school more,” she said.
Lewis also said that she doesn’t know where her childrens’ father is to ask him for any assistance.
“Mi need wah likkle work so mi can get a likkle house fi mi and mi children dem. Mi grandmother seh mi can build a likkle house pan di land,” she said.
Anyone who can assist Lewis can contact her at
876-414-6230.
It has been one year and eight months since St Thomas resident Doreen Kirby died at age 56, and her family members said that they are yet to get closure, as her cause of death remains a mystery.
Kirby’s daughter, Vashti Samuels, who spoke on behalf of the family, said they are looking for closure with an autopsy result since her mother did not have any known illnesses.
“On the day of the autopsy, we were there waiting to hear what was our mother’s cause of death but the results were inconclusive,” she said. “They told us they couldn’t find out what killed her and they were going to take some blood tissues to test at the government forensic lab. We have been waiting on the result since. We have made lots of calls to check on the results but we haven’t heard anything. We have not been resting well since she passed because her death came as a surprise to everyone.”
GOT A STROKE
According to Samuels, she last spoke to her mother just hours before her death on January 16, 2018, and was shocked when she was told that she may have got a stroke and was rushed to hospital.
“My mother was fine all day. She