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Living conditions of Guyanese family upset T&T cops

Sep 12, 2014 News

(Trinidad Guardian) -Three-year-old Jordon Campbell unknowingly escaped death Wednesday after he wandered some 800 metres from his Freeport home onto the busy Southern Main Road. Death would have been almost certain had it not been for passersby’s frantic shouts of “stop” to the driver of an oncoming vehicle. The driver then took the lost toddler to Freeport police and by yesterday afternoon he was up to making mischief as curious children usually do.
But PCs Rampersad, Sookraj and Basdeo, who searched a squatting area at John Persad Trace, Chase Village, a short distance from where the unkempt toddler was found, were unsettled by the impoverished conditions being faced by his family. The wooden shack leant so badly that bad weather is almost likely to topple it over.
Filled with sympathy, the police spent the afternoon searching for food and clothes to assist the family. Some police and residents donated clothes and the Sahara Restaurant and K & S Supermarket also made contributions.
Police said Jordon’s mother, Julia Campbell, 35, left him and his one-year-old brother, Jameel, with a relative as she went to seek family planning services at the Couva District Health Facility.
The relative, who was ill, fell asleep and Jordon was able to open the door and walk out. After the driver rescued the child and took him to the police, Inspector Corbett ordered colleagues to take a picture of the child and return to the community to search for his parents. Eventually, they found Jordon’s home, where the relative and Jameel were still asleep. He told police that the door was closed but was not locked.
Campbell, a Guyanese mother of five, acknowledged she could have lost her son. Speaking by telephone, she said she had to leave the children home because she could not afford to pay their taxi fares. Unemployed for the past few months, she said most times she could not afford to buy baby milk and had to feed them Supligen. Campbell, who has been living in Trinidad for the past six years, said she applied for public assistance for the children but was denied because she was not a citizen.
“Sometimes I can’t afford milk and the things that they need, so I use Supligen. Whatever little that I can afford, I give them that. Sometimes it might not be the right stuff for them to use, but it is just to make sure I give them something to keep them up.” She added: “I am so thankful that his life was not taken away on the main road. I try my best and talk to him but he is a child that doesn’t listen.
“I try not to beat him but he does whatever he wants to do. He knows the way to the main road because whenever we have to go out, we have to walk.” Campbell said the entire ordeal has brought her shame, but she needs help to get her life organised. She said she wanted to go back to Guyana with the boys where she has family. She said she had to get passports for herself and the toddlers first and also needed money for their flight, but her plan is to return to T&T eventually to build a life for her family.

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