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10/26/2004 
GRENADIAN COMMUNITY RALLIES TO HELP GRANDMOTHER  
BY JOYCE SHELBY A Brooklyn woman desperately trying to bring her grandchildren to the U.S. from Grenada got a pledge of support yesterday. Roy Hastick, president of the Caribbean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a native of Grenada, said he will pull out all the stops to help Evadne Percy. "This is an urgent situation," Hastick said yesterday. "I don't see any reason not to get assistance expedited." Percy lost her daughter and a 7-year-old grandson when Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada last month. Her surviving grandchildren, Tervana Harford, 14, and her sister Deleon Ettienne, 12, were both badly injured and need medical attention. "Deleon has blood clots all over," Percy said. "She lost four teeth; her lip is open. They put a wire in her mouth because her jaw was broken. Deleon says that wire is cutting her and it hurts." Percy, 51, flew to Grenada last month to bury her daughter and grandson, and to bring the girls back to the U.S. But she was told she could not do so until she adopts them. Samoa Archibald, assistant to Grenada's consul general in Miami, said Grenada was not hindering the children. "This is definitely not on our end," she said. "Our understanding [is] that the United States is not issuing visas to people from Grenada at all." Phone calls to the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services were not returned. The girls are presently with relatives in the British Virgin Islands. Percy said she spoke to them Friday, right after receiving the results from X-rays and a CAT scan. During Hurricane Ivan, Deleon flew in the air like a bird, Percy said. Tervana was discovered in the rubble of the family's home a day after Ivan struck. "Tervana says she has pains in her chest. Her foot is bleeding even though they put stitches in it, and she has headaches. When she's awake, she's very quiet. She says, 'I'm missing my Mommy,'" Percy said. "I talk to them on the phone almost everyday," Percy added as she tried, unsuccessfully, to hold back tears. "Deleon asks, 'When are we coming to you?' Those girls have been through a lot. They need medical help and counseling." Hastick began his appeal to elected officials yesterday morning. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz immediately assigned an assistant to the case. Percy said she will not give up until her grandchildren are with her. "I can't," she said. "Never. They have nobody else." Reprinted from NYDAILYNEWS.COM
 

 


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