Two homes in Caparo are under threat of being swept away by a land slide that has been slowly getting worse.
Linda Boodansingh told Guardian Media yesterday that while road repair works may have been a blessing for those in the Todds Station Road area, it has been a curse for her family.
According to Boodansingh, the road works, which were conducted a little over a year ago, had caused the land to shift. The 65-year-old grandmother said she must now tread the terrain surrounding her house carefully, as she knows all too well that one misstep could be especially painful.
She said, “I coming down the hill and I fell down a few times. My hand does real hurt me now, when rain fall it gets really muddy and slippery as how the land dropping, it is hard.”
Boodansingh explained that because of the conditions, she has to resort to living like a prisoner in her home.
She added: “I am so depressed and stressed out, I can’t come out and go and do anything, right now I have to go and pay my light bill and my internet bill and really can’t come out.”
Boodansingh said in recent months, the landslides near her home have worsened, forcing her family of 12 to live in constant fear.
“I does cannot sleep at night because I so scared that my house will go down, all the cesspit and everything gone down and I so scared, also my children and my grandchildren.”
Boodansingh, who has been residing at Todd Station Road in Caparo for the last 45 years, claimed that there has been major land movement after a team conducted road repair works over a year ago.
“They were fixing a part of the road and they dig up the road, they dig the road about 15 feet down and then when we notice all the landslide and thing they grade down all the trees in the back of my house, and ever since that we notice the landslides, the land caving down.”
The elderly woman maintained that her home, as well as her daughter’s, have started to crack and as the lands around her collapse, so too is her belief her plight will be addressed.
“I did went to the company pure and told them several times about it, every day I keep calling them and they not giving me any accurate answer.”
The details of the landslide were sent to Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan, who said the information will be passed to the relevant agencies.