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Jan 20, 2015 News
Injured prison officer, Roxanne Winfield, finally moved into her spanking new house at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara.
Winfield entered the house last Sunday and is already feeling at home.
The house was the brainchild of the Rotary Club of Stabroek, which had responded to one of the countless articles carried in this newspaper about the injured prison officer’s plight.
Together with Habitat for Humanity along with monetary assistance through President Donald Ramotar, the project to build a special home for Winfield got underway.
Although the house was officially handed over to her more than a year ago, she had to wait months before the local utilities got their act together and install the necessary facilities to make the home habitable.
It took another article in the Kaieteur News and the intervention of the main opposition A Partnership for National Unity, to get water and electricity to the house sometime last year.
Winfield lost her speech and her ability to move around unaided as a result of the head injuries she sustained when a blast from a shotgun tore through her head on Mashramani Day 2002.
On that day Winfield had risked her life to prevent five dangerous criminals from escaping from the Georgetown prison.
Her efforts failed and the escapees eventually created havoc that eventually led to an unprecedented crime wave in the country.
Winfield, who is confined to a wheelchair, is sharing the house with her daughter and her sister Jacqueline Gonsalves, who has been caring for her ever since she came out of the hospital.
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