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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Guardian An­gel

Leaking pipe erodes driveway tiles

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Prob­lem: Ari­ma res­i­dent An­tar Baksh says he has been liv­ing at The Cross­ings on Tumpuna Road, which was mar­ket­ed as an up­scale gat­ed com­mu­ni­ty by Home Con­struc­tion Ltd (HCL), since 2008.Mr Baksh said home­own­ers pay $665 per month to a sub­sidiary of HCL, called San­ta Rosa West, to man­age and main­tain the de­vel­op­ment.

He said, "About two months ago a leak de­vel­oped in the mid­dle of my dri­ve­way. To the best of my knowl­edge there were no un­der­ground wa­ter lines lead­ing to my house, as those pre­vi­ous­ly there had burst two years ago and new con­nec­tions had to be run to the en­tire house."Dur­ing the time tak­en to find a con­trac­tor to come and fix my prob­lem, the leak gushed more wa­ter and the tiles in my dri­ve­way start­ed break­ing. Even the sand un­der the dri­ve­way had been erod­ed."

Mr Baksh said the line that was re­paired was "bare­ly two feet be­low the sur­face.""These prob­lems are not unique to me as many oth­er home­own­ers still have and have ex­pe­ri­enced the same prob­lems."Mr Baksh said he e-mailed Richard Le Blanc, as well as Sal­ly-Ann Grant, of San­ta Rosa West Ltd, in­form­ing them of the mat­ter, and "to date, nei­ther of them has re­spond­ed to me."

Mr Baksh said he wants to be com­pen­sat­ed for the mon­ey he spent re­pair­ing the leak, as "the con­trac­tor cost me $2,000 and I es­ti­mate the re-tiling work to be around $5,000."

So­lu­tion: The Guardian An­gel con­tact­ed Ms Grant about Mr Baksh's case and was told that Mr Le Blanc is aware of the mat­ter. Ms Grant said she will be li­ais­ing with Mr Baksh and Mr Le Blanc will ad­dress the sit­u­a­tion as soon as pos­si­ble.

Prob­lem: Ja­son King said he has been search­ing for an agent for Lib­by's Corned Beef to com­plain.Mr King said, "While prepar­ing a tin of corned beef, a white, rub­ber-like, skin-like ma­te­r­i­al was found in the can."I kept it as proof as this was rather up­set­ting to me. I can't de­ter­mine what this rub­ber thing is and I am ask­ing for your as­sis­tance."

So­lu­tion: The dis­trib­u­tor for Lib­by's Corn Beef in T&T is Ged­des Grant, at Lot 3, Ma­coya In­dus­tri­al Es­tate. The com­pa­ny's tele­phone con­tact is 645-1519. Mr King's com­plaint was re­layed to the com­pa­ny and he can ex­pect to hear from a Ged­des Grant rep­re­sen­ta­tive.


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