A second-hand store has reopened to help a senior and community activist pay for medical bills after he was battered and robbed.

Cleveland Simmons, 76, said: “All kinds of people and businesses have donated items to me to help me out. It has been a long recovery. I got a broken nose, broken jaw, broken teeth when I got attacked.

“But the good news is we have a room of second-hand furniture, jewellery, microwaves, you name it.”

Mr Simmons added he was in the last stages of recovery from injuries suffered in 2011 when he was beaten in a street robbery near his home on Pembroke’s Happy Valley Road.

His partnership with the former C&R discount store on Hamilton’s Court Street, at the junction with Elliott Street, started last summer.

Now the store has a room full of items for sale, with part of the proceeds going to help Mr Simmons with about $5,000 in dental expenses.

The vacant shop was filled with donated items from friends.

To find out more, donate, or buy items, contact Mr Simmons at 516-9968