Rose Place squatter says he is being unfairly targeted by the Kingstown Town Board

After two visits in less than a week from officials of the Kingstown Town Board to his residence, Rose Place (Bottom Town) resident, Quinn Andrews, says he strongly believes he is being unfairly targeted.

Pigeon pen and structure that covers the tables where Andrew’s products are sold, before the pen was removed by the Kingstown Town Board

In a previous interview with SEARCHLIGHT which was published in the December 9 weekend edition, Andrews said on Tuesday, December 6 around 3:00 p.m, officials of the Town Board arrived at the residence with four trucks, in the company of members of the Special Services Unit (SSU), and attempted to remove the wooden structure attached to the residence where he lives on North River Road.

The structure covers the tables where his products are sold from including toys, footwear, toiletries and other items.

Three days after the initial visit on Friday December 9, Andrews said Town Board officials and a demolition team returned to North River Road and removed a pigeon pen which is located outside the residence. At the time the pen housed 11 pigeons and Andrews said the birds are retailed at around EC$400 each.

“I was inside sleep and somebody come say the Town Board out here to me. When me come now, they say they come to remove the pigeon pen so I must take out the birds.”

Andrews said he was taken aback by the request as he had been told by the Town Board on December 6, that he would be given two weeks to remove the pen and re-home the birds.

“Dem tell me put the birds in a box but how me must do that? They break off the pen and walk with everything. Up to now they can’t tell me how my birds are, if they get feed or nothing. How they tell me Tuesday two weeks, and come back just days after?”

Andrews said the Town Board officials said the pigeon pen was obstructing vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the area, however, the vendor by trade contested this claim, as he pointed out that the pen stood on the boundary line of the residence.

He has accused the Kingstown Town Board of unfairly targeting him because he is a squatter and also has a criminal history which led to him being deported back to SVG in 2008.

Calls were placed to the Warden of the Kingstown Town Board, Clayton Burgin, to provide a comment on this issue, but up to press time there was no response.