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EXCLUSIVE: Elderly woman lives in deplorable condition as government refuses to complete her damaged home. | SMN News

May 9, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Elderly woman lives in deplorable condition as government refuses to complete her damaged home. | SMN News
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~I am not even surviving as I do not even have food in the house, while the government spent thousands on carnival and artists. ~

PHILIPSBURG: --- The cries of an elderly woman living in Cape Bay has gone on deaf ears while Government continues with its bureaucracy. Iris Van Putten a 70-year-old woman who recently did a knee surgery in Curacao is living in deplorable conditions in her Cape Bay home.
The woman said that her home was destroyed by hurricane Irma and Maria and she lost everything she owned prior to the catastrophic hurricanes. Mrs.


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