out on the streets in Dockyard.

The residents of Clarence Terrace complained that Government had told them to move but had not offered anywhere to go.

And they said they had been "harassed'' by officials trying to get them out of their homes of more than 30 years in some cases.

At a meeting of the Dockyard Housing Committee last night, Ministers came under fire for failing to reply to pleas for help from the Clarence Terrace residents.

Committee member Mr. George Crofton said: "It's double talk. The Minister for Housing, Quinton Edness and the then Acting Minister for Works and Engineering, Gerald Simons said they would come back to us with information in writing confirming the verbal agreement that people would not be evicted but helped and assisted.'' Mrs. Grace Outerbridge, committee chairperson, said: "The situation is urgent. Families are upset at the way they are being treated.

"People are being harassed, are being put under pressure they should not have to take.'' One of the longest-serving tenants, Mrs. Mary Simons, who has lived in Clarence Terrace for 37 years, said she had been told not to pay her rent by a Government official.

The committee believed she had been told this so as not to prejudice Government's right to evict her.

Another member, Mr. Clarkson Tankard said: "Right now six people have nowhere to go and I want the people in Government to respond to this.

"We are not going to sit back and let anybody take advantage of us.'' The two Sandys North PLP MPs, Mr. Eugene Cox and Dennis Lister, both attended the meeting last night and promised to make inquiries on behalf of the tenants.