While others were feasting on Christmas Day fare, some householders in Sherbourne, St John, were being served a double whammy.
Residents of Sherbourne Gardens had no water and the garbage in the area has not been collected for a while, leaving a lot of the Christmas cleaning trash still alongside the road.
By the time the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) truck appeared around 4 p.m. yesterday, there was a rush by the residents to salvage what was left of Christmas Day with brief baths and scaled back food preparation.
“I would never expect that when I got home the water would be off, based on what they say that people will have water for Christmas. This is happening too regularly,” one woman told the DAILY NATION. (AC)
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