63-year-old woman wouldn’t sell her house in Kingstown for $1 million

by Jada Chambers

In a season where money speaks loudly, Karen John believes there are some things that are worth remaining the same. The 63-year-old woman, whose house is nestled between three stores in Kingstown, is proud to still be living in the same house where her great grandparents once dwelt.

And, while the rest of the capital is slowly modernising, John has been living in a small brick house on Tyrell Street for 63 years, and is very content with her home.
She told SEARCHLIGHT that the house is a family heirloom that has been passed down through four generations, and she has no intentions to succumb to the pressures of business people who want to buy her property and transform it into an establishment like in the rest of Kingstown.

“In this area, growing up as a child, everybody in the neighbourhood loving, everybody was living as one. Not like these people who now come in. I could name out everybody who did live on this area here…from there (pointing), it was Calvin Ash, then it had the McDowalls, then it had the Audains, then it have we. Then it had the Hinds, the Jacobs, the Veira, the Dopwell, then it had the DaSilva, and then it had the Prescotts. That was on our line. On this other line now, it had the Connells, the Jacobs again, Miss Flinter, the Samuel then it had the church,” John recounted.

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