Brand new home gifted to elderly fire victims

Mon, Jan 24th 2011, 10:00 PM

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

ELDERLY fire victims were overwhelmed with joy after they received the keys to a brand new home yesterday.

Gifted to them by Arawak Homes Limited (AHL), 78-year-old Yorick and 64-year-old Ruth Evans cut the ribbon to a two-bedroom and two-bath house in Sir Lynden Pindling Estates.

Mrs Evans said: "I lost everything in the fire, and whatever was left they looted it out - I was really upset, I was upset and I was mad, and sad and I felt lonely and disappointed - everything. I felt like no one loved me, like no one cared - I thank you Mr Wilson that you didn't throw me out of your office."

At the ceremony, Franklyn Wi ...

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