A Laventille woman is hoping her grandmother will be relocated to a Housing Development Corporation (HDC) apartment after she said she was threatened and her house shot at by gunmen in Beverly Hills, Laventille. Marissa Robe, said her 76-year-old grandmother, Patrice Robe, was forced to move out of her apartment because of the high crime in the community. Patrice now lives with relatives.
In an interview at Guardian office in Port-of-Spain, Robe said: "We went to HDC several times and told them she (Patrice) wanted to be relocated to some place else but we did not get a satisfactory response." Robe said gunmen targeted her grandmother's apartment building and killed two other relatives in the past few years. "They would shoot at the apartment building every night and threatened her to move out. Things just got worse so she left. She couldn't move around a lot and left the apartment only once a week," Robe said.
She said her grandmother went to live with relatives in Paradise Heights, Morvant, but continued to pay the rent at the other apartment. "She continued to pay the rent and had things in the apartment. When she went to pay it again she found out HDC changed the lock and closed the account," she said. "We don't know where the money went that she was paying for the apartment so now she is homeless," Robe said.The family is still hoping that Patrice will be relocated elsewhere. Attempts to contact officials at HDC proved futile.
