Police invade home of DeSouza Road family, allegedly threatening father with a gun and traumatizing his children

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REAL NEWS: A DeSouza Road man is flabbergasted at the treatment meted out to him by heavily armed police officers in the presence of his young children.

An emotional Marlon Davis told the Good Morning Sass Show that officers beat down the door to his home sometime after 5 a.m. on Thursday, October 20, inquiring about missing or stolen items they allege his children took – including a weed-whacker, edge-cutter and other lawn and hedge-cutting apparatus.

Davis says his house was ransacked and the Police treated him like a criminal.

He claims that an officer pointed a gun at him, which caused his four-year-old daughter to cry, and he was handcuffed in front of his children, which has traumatized them.

Davis says the officers decided not to take him away only because there was no one else at home to take care of the children. However, he was ordered to report to the Grays Farm Police Station at 9:30 a.m., which he said he would do in the company of a lawyer.

But when Davis visited the station, he says he was told he was “safe;” he was not questioned; and he was told to return home.

Meanwhile, Davis is wondering who will will replace the damaged door on his home.

Persons who know Davis tell REAL News they are upset by what transpired and they believe he is being targeted and victimized.

One angry woman is asking why the Police are not going after “the real badman and dem,” including those on radio who are claiming to have inside knowledge of criminal activity.

Another woman says that “water came to [her] eyes” when she heard how Davis’ children were affected.  “You know they traumatized those kids for life,” she says.  “They’re never going to forget what they witnessed this morning.”

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Government determined to meet housing revolution goal Loop Barbados

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Government is on target towards building 10, 000 houses across the island.

Speaking to the media on Wednesday, October 18, during a site visit at Haggatt Hall, St Michael where 12 housing units are being erected, Minister Of Housing, Land and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland shared that the Government was on route to achieving its housing revolution goal.

“We have some 25 units that will be built on this location in Haggatt Hall. It is part of the 10,000 housing trust that the Prime Minister spoke about in our budget speech and in our Estimate Speech and when we resumed office back in January.”

Sutherland did not reveal the exact timeline the housing units in Haggatt Hall will be finished, but disclosed that an additional 13 units will be built in the area as well as 20 units in Whitepark Road, Alleyne’s Court.

“We said to the public of Barbados led by our Prime Minister that we’ll be building 10,000 houses. What we have here is 12 and I articulated another 13 that’s 25. Soon there will be 20 units at Whitepark Road, Alleyne’s Court, these are all rent-to-own units.”

He also shared that due to the use of photovoltaic technology, rent-to-own houses will be cheaper. These homes will be accessible for low-income earners who work for less than $2,500 a month.

“Persons that are earning less than $2,500 a month – that is the low-income category – when we put photovoltaics on the roofs of these homes, persons would have mortgage rates as low as $435 a month.”

“And I don’t think for a two bedroom house that is unreasonable and $530 for a three-bedroom house,” he professed.

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