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  • 11 months ago
Filled with a mixture of regrets, sadness and hope for the future, a recovering cocaine addict and once street dweller wants to reunite with his family.
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00:00After
00:23living on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Spain to a carcass between 1995-2022, Vernon
00:28Miller who went by the sobriquet Oscar while dwelling on the streets says enough is enough.
00:35Now 65 years old and a newer, sober version of himself, he sat on the Brian Lara promenade
00:41with TV6 News recently and related how his life took the dramatic turn to substance abuse
00:46and alcoholism.
00:48Miller says it all began with the separation of his parents.
01:18Miller says his life on the streets was all about survival and getting his next high.
01:42Telling the story about the spark that ignited him to change his ways, Miller says that began
01:47when he featured in Uncle Ellis' video, I Don't Mind, in 2017.
01:53He says up to 2020, Calypsonians were singing songs about him.
02:23Miller says he began seeing himself as someone God could use.
02:34He says it was around 2022 and he had asked a woman named Sandra for help.
02:40She, he said, pointed him in the direction of the Centre of Displaced Persons on Riverside
02:45Plaza in Port of Spain.
03:00Speaking about his daughter who he has not seen since she was a child, Miller says he
03:05felt sad.
03:07He says his daughter Vanessa should be about 38 years.
03:11His younger sisters, he says, are named Angela, Margaret, Marjorie and Mary.
03:17Anyone who might know the whereabouts of Miller's sisters or daughter could contact him at 725-6408.
03:27Dominic Ranroope, TV6 News.
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