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Kitch's wife loses out on Rainorama By Jada Loutoo, Trinidad Guardian, Saturday, October 27th, 2007 |
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Rainorama row The late Lord Kitchener's wife, children ordered out of family home. Judge rules in favour of relatives of Kitch's one-time lover. AN insistent Valerie Green, the common-law wife of the late Grandmaster Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts), says she is not moving house after she and their children were ordered out of their Rainorama home by a High Court judge. Green and her children were yesterday given until year's end to vacate the premises after Justice Lennox Deyalsingh ruled in favour of relatives of Roberts' one-time lover, Betsy Ann Howell-Pollard. Pollard's sisters and friend, June Ann Howell-Logan, Susan Gittens and Charmaine Kumar, to whom she willed the property, sought to get Green and her children off the property at 610 Diego Martin Main Road, which was given the moniker Rainorama after Kitchener's Road March win with a song of the same name in 1973. The women claimed Green and her children's presence there was illegal. In defence, Green argued that she was tricked into signing away her title to the property by Roberts, who then transferred it to his mistress. Green and her children lived there from 1971 to 1989 until the couple's relationship turned sour, but she moved back in before his death in February 2000. Green claimed Roberts fraudulently got her to transfer Rainorama to him so he could conduct some business, but instead transferred it to Howell-Pollard. Green, through her lawyer Kerwyn Garcia, argued that Roberts' mistress knew about the fraud. But in agreeing with Gregory Delzin, who appeared for Howell-Pollard's relatives, Justice Deyalsingh said Howell-Pollard was an innocent party in the transaction and any fraud or trickery laid with Roberts, not her. He said he could find nothing in the pleadings before him that raised the issue of fraud or trickery. Justice Deyalsingh gave Green and her family until November 30 to vacate the property, but extended the time to the end of the year after Garcia asked for more time. Green: I intend to appeal Speaking afterwards, Green said she intended to appeal the judge's ruling. She said she felt the same way she did when she found out the house was in someone else's name. Attorney Annabelle Boynes also represented Greene and her children, while attorney Faikah Carrmuddeen appeared with Delzin. |