Ramsaroop family cries for help

Seema Ramsaroop, 39, and her ten children from were ordered out of the home on on June 24. “Up to this day we are still trying to live in my mother’s small house because we have no place to go,” Seema said.

Seema’s mother,Sandra Ramsaroop, who lives in Princes Town, took in her daughter and her family following a family dispute.

Sandra is today appealing to the Housing Minister Randell Mitchell to assist her daughter whom she says is helpless.

Seema’s grand children, 18-month-old twins Rahesh and Sahesh Rampersad, have been sleeping on the porch of their great grandmother’s home with their parents, Sarah and Ramnath Rampersad.

Ramsaroop said she shared a common-law relationship with her husband Krishna Rampersad for 23 years and he died four months ago.

“The family members are in dispute over property but I know my husband’s name is in the will and his children should benefit from this,” she said. Her children range from ages 3 to 21 years-old.

According to Ramsaroop all her household items were removed from her property in Couva and transported to the home of her mother, several miles away in Princes Town.

She says her stove and television set were destroyed in the moving process. Up to yesterday, Seema’s belonging lay at the side of the road covered with black plastic.

Three of Seema’s children attend schools in Couva with two in secondary school and the other in primary school. Since the family left Couva the children are unable to attend school.

Sandra said her daughter (Seema) approached the MP for Princes Town Barry Padarath who told her she must have an income in order to get government housing.

“My sons look for work cutting lawns and I am unable to work.

This is why we are crying out for help,” she said.