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8.3.
In Part 3 of the Chapter, we indicate the reasons for our inability to
address the issue of adequacy of compensation and our proposals as to the
manner in which this issue may be dealt with after submission of this Report.
PART I
DAMAGE TO SPECIFIC RESIDENCES
Evidence of Residents
8.4.
We have considered the evidence of 32 witnesses who testified at
the Enquiry at (i) to (xxxii) below.
(i)
Germaine McLeod
8.5.
This witness lived at 22 Harold Path, Tivoli Gardens, on 24 May
2010. He ran a business selling video games from his concrete two bedroom
house. On 24 May, he and his family at first remained at home. He heard some
gunfire and went outside and stood on the edge of a parking lot from where he
saw a car on fire. “Shooting became louder and things started blowing up”, so
Mr. McLeod went inside his house and remained for about an hour. Then he left
and went to the house of a wheelchair-bound lady, Ms. Sissy. While at
Ms. Sissy’s, Mr. McLeod saw some houses “to the front of her house” begin to
burn. Ms. Sissy’s house also caught fire. A soldier ordered all the occupants of
Ms. Sissy’s house to go outside.
8.6.
Mr. McLeod said he was lined up with other men and made to walk
to an apartment building in Java in the late afternoon. He related a story of
being beaten by soldiers (which we deal with in Chapter 9) before being taken
by truck to Up Park Camp where he was detained for 2 days and, thereafter, to
the National Arena where he was further detained “for two or three days”.