White Hill folk in misery

IN WHITE HILL, St Andrew, the woes have just got worse.

To the garbage pile-up, the difficulty in obtaining running water and charges that some utility companies are “shunning” the area, add the collapse of part of the road and damage to yet another house.

A Ministry of Transport and Works crew was forced to use large stones to block a section of the road to vehicles yesterday after torrential rains had resulted in the surface sinking and several cracks appearing.

For several years, the White Hill area has been regarded as a problem district because of land slippage that has wrecked houses or sections of them.

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.