‘Cocaine granny’ no more, Sandra works on recovery

(After) New person: Sandra Braithwaite after some months in the rehabilitation programme.

By Oluatoyin Alleyne

Less than three years ago Sandra Braithwaite spent her nights on a tomb in Le Repentir Cemetery and her days doing odd jobs or on a ‘block’ buying cocaine and being merry among ‘friends’.

Today, at 59, she is a recovering addict who no longer answers to the name ‘Cocaine granny,’ and she only says a brief hello