Ministry crew transforms area after Freeman Street tragedy 
A CREW deployed by Minister of Communications and Works, Mr. Robeson Benn, after a tree felling exercise on Thursday, transformed the East La Penitence neighbourhood, in the vicinity of Freeman Street, Georgetown, where tragedy struck last weekend.
Residents expressed gratitude, having experienced great relief, after the job was completed in a short time.
The tragic incident occurred Saturday night when Tamicia Hackett, a pupil of East La Penitence Primary School, sleeping in bed with two other siblings, was killed by a falling tree.
Their parents, Junior Hackett and Tamika Hope were asleep on a lower bunk with another sibling, three-year-old son, Julius, but they all escaped with minor injuries.
It was a nightmare for the couple and their four children as the trunk landed on their house, killing Tamicia and injuring others. Some of the family members were pinned under the rubble while others were violently flung from the bed into other corners of the premises.  
Neighbours and others ran to the rescue and the trapped survivors were freed and rushed to hospital. The last person found after a search was the five-year-old Tamicia who, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Unit of Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Her parents and three siblings were treated and sent away.
In response to requests by residents to have the trees cut and the area cleared, Minister Benn and a team of officials visited and workers from the Ministry, employing the use of a hymac and other machines, effected the clearance.
Tamicia was laid to rest yesterday, following a post mortem examination. Her body was put on view at Sandy’s Parlour before the funeral service at Elim Pentecostal Church, also in East La Penitence and thence to Le Repentir Cemetery for burial.
She leaves to mourn her death, parents Junior and Tamika, grandmother Eslyn Hackett, two brothers and one sister, aunts, uncles and other relatives and friends.