Thelma Reid profits from ‘To Mom with Love’
BY COREY ROBINSON Sunday Observer reporter [email protected]
Sunday, May 05, 2013

AT age 85 Thelma Reid has only one regret — that she has no children. She got pregnant five times… all ending in miscarriages.
Not being a mother is the only thing that brings sadness to her voice; not even the squalid conditions under which she lives in Waterhouse, Kingston, depress as much.
And it was evident yesterday as she sang praises to the promoters of the concert, ‘To Mom With Love’, who opted to renovate her house as part of their promotional efforts.
“The last one I lost, I lost it on the Tivoli bridge,” whispered Reid, making reference to a bridge in front the now defunct Queen’s Theatre on Spanish Town Road in Kingston.
“I just feel when the van I was in go up in the air, and when it come down me feel the baby body just come right down, too,” she said, holding her lower abdomen as if re-enacting the ill-fated event.
The year that the miscarriage occurred is lost in Reid’s memory. However, the disappointment that she felt is still fresh. It lives on in her dilapidated Rushworth Avenue home — a relic of her dream of becoming a mother.
“I feel I would be happier. That’s why I built it. You nuh see how it build; one side for them alone,” she said. “But is not so it go. That is my greatest trouble,” she continued.
Reid — who lives in the cramped living room of her now decrepit three-bedroom house — was chosen by promoters Isaiah Laing and Joseph Bogdanovich as the ‘headline mother’ of this year’s event. Along with the renovation of her home, Reid’s title affords her a new wardrobe, foodstuff, and a VIP seat at the concert scheduled for May 12, at the Lime Golf Academy.
She will be entertained by the Manhattans, Rose Royce, John Holt, Karen Smith, among others, at the concert slated to be the biggest of the company’s decade-long history. The honour brought a smile to the old lady’s face.
“Oh, gosh! I’m telling you, God himself sent this help for me. I call on him all day. From I small, I always call on the Lord. He is my shepherd, I shall not want,” she chanted, lifting her hands to the sky in praise.
“God himself answers prayer; everyday I talk with him. I have been under stress with consideration but I can’t tell everybody. I just keep it and talk with God. He knows the time when to do things. Him see me in this corner and pointed to me,” she said.
Reid moved to Waterhouse in the 1970s and with her husband, built her house. Over the years, however, and with her husband’s passing in 1990, the place has drastically deteriorated.
Yesterday, the sun’s rays shone through zinc sheets peeled away from the rafters in the small living room. It was as if the rays were drying Reid’s clothes that were soaked by heavy showers Friday night. The rest of the house is uninhabitable.
Truckloads of sand, gravel, steel, cement and blocks were taken to the premises yesterday, said concert promoters, Laing and Bogdanovich, and with the help of men from the community they started the work. Hopefully, it will be completed by Friday, they said.
Businessman Bruce Bicknell is also playing a major role in the construction of the house, as he is putting up most of the construction material.
“We are having a meeting with the people in the community who are going to be rebuilding this lady’s house. We are here experiencing the beginning of a total makeover of this woman,” said Bogdanovich, adding that Reid was taken shopping on Constant Spring Road Friday evening.
“This To Mom, With Love concert is about Mothers Day and about giving your mom love and respect. And when you see this lady at the concert, you’re going to wonder. She will be a woman taken out of this area, Waterhouse, and transformed into the black queen that she is,” he said.
Laing declined to reveal the cost of the initiative thus far, but said that the budget was “climbing”. He said that he is undaunted by the possibility that persons would try to steal the material, a customary practice on construction sites.
“I have no fear about that. Once people know that we are the ones doing it they won’t trouble anything. Because they know that will be disrespect and these are some very proud people, they won’t have that.”

I’ve had 150 men in 6 years. I did it almost every day.. with strangers, even orgies. I lost my friends and family and I’ve NEVER been in love
STUNNING Nicole Harrop is the kind of girl most men would love on their arm with her pretty face, big boobs and curvy figure.
But any fella who takes her out needs to have plenty of stamina and patience – because she is a SEX ADDICT.
Nicole is 24 but has slept with more than 150 men – and women – since losing her virginity when she was 17.
This gorgeous woman has…
BEDDED someone nearly every day – and suffered heroin-style withdrawal symptoms when she went two weeks without sex.
WORN OUT boyfriends with her rampant behaviour that included group sex.
HORRIFIED easy-going flatmates with her wanton attitude.
DESTROYED relationships with family and lovers who hoped for something permanent.
NEVER been in love because she’s not with anyone long enough.
Nicole know her behaviour is abnormal and is now seeking help through a group called Sex Addicts Anonymous. She told The People: “Everyone laughs when I say I’m a sex addict but it has completely taken over my life.
“I wish I could have normal relationships but I can’t. My boyfriends like the fact that I’m highly-sexed at first but then it just becomes too much for them.
“If I can’t see them when I want sex then I’ll go out and get it from the first man I can find. It’s like a drug and I can’t control it.”
Amazingly, Nicole had a strict upbringing with her parents. While her friends went to bars and clubs and shagged boys, the teenage schoolgirl was busy with her head in a book, studying for her exams.
Then she met her first boyfriend called Paul when she was 16. She waited for six months before having sex – but after that first time she couldn’t get enough.
Nicole, from Bristol, said: “My mum and dad didn’t want me messing up my studies so they were quite strict.
“I was never allowed out to parties or out drinking. Going to the cinema was a treat and I’d be picked up and dropped off by my dad.
“One night me and Paul went to a film but sneaked out to a nearby field and drank a bottle of wine.
“I remember being nervous, like most girls are, but thinking it was quite nice. The next night I told my mum I was taking the dog for a walk and went to meet Paul in a park.
“I tied the dog to a tree, dragged Paul into the bushes and pounced on him. He was over the moon but this happened night after night and after a few months we split up.
“He felt that all I wanted from him was sex. He was right really.” A year later, Nicole moved into a house with three other girls.
“I went wild,” she said. “In the first week I brought home three different guys. My housemates were horrified. They’d known me since school and thought I was a bit of a swot.
“This carried on for a year. I’d go clubbing a couple of times a week and it’d be a different guy every time. Plus I’d have a few ‘specials’ for sex.
“My friends kept asking me what was wrong and why did I feel the need to sleep with so many men. They were worried about my reputation.
“I didn’t care. I’d just tell them, ‘You’re only young once – stop being boring.’ I practised safe sex and I wasn’t sleeping with their boyfriends. I just saw it as fun.”
Nicole’s pals asked her to leave when she brought back a handsome stranger who stole one of her flatmate’s purses. She said: “They all sat me down and said that they couldn’t have me living with them because they didn’t like the person I’d become and were scared of all the random men I was bringing home.
“I was furious. I just thought they were trying to spoil my fun. I packed my bags and found a new flat and that’s when I went completely wild. I’d go and find guys in bars on my own, flirt with them and in no time they’d be in my bed.”
Nicole didn’t care whether they were attractive. She said: “By the time I was about 21, anyone would do.”
Nicole was a care home assistant but decided to get a bar job so she could pull even more men.
“I was terrible,” she said. “I’d offer to give boys a lift home and end up in bed with them.
“One night, I went in the bar drinking. I had a reputation and three of the guys invited me back to theirs for a drink. I had sex with all of them. We stayed up all night and the next day back at the bar as I served drinks they were laughing. I had to leave because all the other girls hated me and that’s when I started to feel guilty about my behaviour.”
But that didn’t stop pretty Nicole who soon got another job in promotions.
She made friends with another promo girl called Sarah almost as wild as her. Nicole said: “She was sex-mad for men but one night we ended up in bed together. It was my first experience with a woman and it was fantastic.
“The thought of going with a girl had never crossed my mind before. I always liked the feeling of power I had over men.
“But being with a woman was just as stimulating. I had orgasm after orgasm.”
Then Nicole started visiting sex clubs when back home. She carried on having one-night-stands, orgies and sleeping with guys between boyfriends until April this year when she had sex in an alley with a “frumpy” cousin’s boyfriend at a family party.
That’s when her horrified parents found out about her lifestyle. Nicole said: “My sister told me unless I sorted my life out she didn’t want anything to do with me.” She decided to seek help and has attended Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings since June.
Nicole said: “I’ve got to take things one step at a time. Up until I met my new boyfriend six weeks ago, I still saw a few guys but I tried to limit it to once a week.
“Before I joined SAA the longest I went without sex was two weeks. That was the longest two weeks of my life. I was frustrated and in deep despair.”
Nicole admits she’s never been in love. She said: “To be honest I’ve not been with a man long enough.” Now she hopes one day she can have a normal relationship.
She added: “I know it’s male fantasy to have a girlfriend who’s a sex addict but in my experience they lose interest.
“And when I meet a man I want to settle down with, I’ll have to tell him what I’ve been through and that’s what I dread.”

A 40-year-old Harare man, Thomas Rueben was nabbed at Makombe passport office while ‘molesting’ an unidentified woman.

Rueben had been operating at Makombe for the past 3 years. H-Metro claim that his ‘business’ was to have what they referred to as “BLUETOOTH” or mubobobo sex with women every day.

It is said the unidentified woman who was in the queue started experiencing a strange feeling as if she was in the middle of a sex act.

She reacted swiftly realizing that Rueben was performing sexually suggestive moves while taking snuff.

He (Rueben) was only rescued by police details as the mob jostled to mete instant justice on him.

Speaking to H-Metro, Reuben said he was given the juju by a sangoma from Nyamaropa in Madziva who claimed it was a charm for ladies.

He said he doesn’t remember the exact number of women he molested but they were more than 6000.

“I use snuff (bute) ndinotosarudza kuti nhasi ndirikuda katete here, kana akabatana, mutema kana mutsvuku and I enjoy mubobobo than real sex. I started using mubobobo in 1999 after I was given it by my uncle in Nyamaropa who told me that it’s a charm for ladies.

“I have been frequenting Makombe since 2011 to have sex with different women in queues. I was married but my wife decided to go after I failed to satsify her but I managed to have children with her.

“I could sometimes track a beautiful lady in the street until she stops in a crowd or shops then accomplish my mission.”

He however said his juju is not possible on girls who have never slept with a man.

“At times I am disappointed with virgins, it does not work” he said, adding, “I just take my snuff and walk around my target and I automatically connect, I take close to two minutes ndisatondatu***.”

Reuben who has been enjoying remote-sex for more than a decade said he was tired of being embarrassed when caught and has decided to call it quits.

“Ndaneta nekurohwa nekunyadziswa, handichada. I am looking forward to going back to Madziva but I don’t know if the sangoma is still alive.

“The ladies at Makombe also destroyed my equipment and I am feeling safe now because as long I have them and ndikangoona chandinakidza ndobva ndada kutochimhanyira,” he said.