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It takes a village ... - Community rescues man from crumbling home

Good Samaritans at home and abroad have come to the assistance of a man living in squalor along Maxfield Avenue in St Andrew just over a week after The Gleaner highlighted his plight. Nigel Townsend, 59, had expressed fear to our news team last...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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