Residents call for clean-up
Sisly Alleyne pointing to the abandoned old cars which are also home to rats, mice, cockroaches, snails and mosquitoes. (Donnay Deane)
Thu, January 05, 2012 - 12:09 AM
ANOTHER DEANE’S VILLAGE, St Michael resident is crying out for help - this time to get rid of “an army of rats” and other pests.
Sisly Alleyne made the appeal yesterday, more than five months after Government moved her elderly Deane’s Village neighbour Jenny Wooding from a dilapidated home to a spanking, three-bedroom house in Barbarees Hill, St Michael.
Alleyne is pleading for some relief from “an army of rats, mice, cockroaches, millions of mosquitoes and African snails”, nuisances which she says live on the lot opposite her house.
That strip of land has a number of old cars and rusty vehicle parts, as well as the house where Wooding lived in squalor.
Alleyne told a DAILY NATION team who visited the area on Tuesday that she was “sick, tired and fed up” with the eyesore which is “nothing but a health hazard to me and the other residents who live around here, but won’t come out in the paper and say that they can’t take it anymore”.
She wants Wooding’s former landlord to remove the old house and clean up the spot. She also called for the mechanic responsible for the old cars being on the lot to take them away.
The 61-year-old woman said the problem spot was an expense to her because she had to purchase insect sprays and rat poison regularly.
According to Alleyne, even though officials from the relevant Government authorities visited the site and stated their concerns and promised to rectify the situation, “up to now nobody has come to our rescue”.
“It looks terrible,” she complained. “I would like it cleaned, it is about time that it gets cleaned up. Everybody does complain about the issue.
“Every day and every night you would see rats. The rats run out of the cars and into people’s yards. Sometimes you go to put the garbage in the cans and you see the rats running out. When I tell you African snails around too....
And don’t talk about mosquitoes when the rain falls! A vagrant even live in one of the cars for years,” she said.
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Nice!
LOVING the photo showing Sunny Barbados at its best!
Maybe B’dos. Tourism Authority could use it for advertising!
This is Barbados at its best! Well done,Bim!
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Comment LinkIs the landowner willing to sell as is for a non ridiculous price?
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Comment LinkThis is just one example of such scenes around Barbados. Take a drive through St Thomas in the Shop Hill area or on the street heading towards Highland ... old vehicles from a mechanic blocking an entire side of the street. Why are people allowed to carry on their business on public property like this while endangering the lives of motorists and pedestrians alike.
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