The sister island of Anegada is reportedly hit with water and fuel shortage. Photo: VINO/File

Anegada residents want to hear from their Ninth District Representative Dr The Hon Hubert O'Neal as they suffer water and fuel shortage. Photo: VINO/File

The Settlement in Anegada. Residents there a frustrated with the shortage of water on the island. Photo: VINO/File

This news site made several efforts to reach personnel at the Water and Sewerage Department on the sister island and the head office on Tortola to no avail. However, according to a source close to the Anegada operations, who cannot be named, the system has serious mechanical and technical problems that are not likely to be rectified before three days.

Several residents, who brought the issue to this news site’s attention, also said they were told that the problem would take at least three days to be sorted out, “Imagine that, three days and some people depend only on the public water system, what about our tourism products, the hotels, the restaurants? Everyone suffering because of this right now,” said one resident.

“The thing is also as usual they treat us like step children. We all check water and sewerage Facebook page (yesterday) to see if they had any notice up and nothing there about our problem. You see things about Tortola, you see notices for Virgin Gorda what about Anegada?….. Not a single word. We mean nothing to this government,” said another.

Fuel shortage

Residents also complained that they are constantly faced with a problem of shortage of fuel. “Right now we also out of fuel at the gas station and we don’t know when we will be getting. This happens frequently right now and the owners (Faulkners) seem over their heads on this issue, no water, no fuel. Anegada shut down for the next couple of days,” said one businessman.

Several persons, especially taxi operators, said that the shortage of fuel takes a serious adverse effect on their business as in some cases they are forced to reduce their fleet.

“We cannot, just cannot operate as normal when there is no fuel on the island. For instance, I have four taxi buses, my partner has some motor cycles as we have the businesses but we just can’t give the service because there is no fuel,” said a businessman who added, “Where is our government, where is [Dr The Hon Hubert] O’Neal (District Representative)? Where are these people who made big promises to us during campaign period when they wanted us to vote for them? Where are they now?”

Efforts to reach Hon O’Neal for a response were unsuccessful.