Are the water shortages in SCB willful acts?
Speaking with this news site, Opposition member and Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) said he spoke with an official from the Ministry of Communications and Works and was told that there were some water main breaks which were responsible for the lack of water in Sea Cows Bay.
“I can’t get the full story because where he told me the water line was broken had nothing to do with the plant in Sea Cows Bay getting water from the reservoir. The water line was broken in the Duffs Bottom area and people in Sea Cow’s Bay were complaining that they didn’t have water,” he said.
“It all goes back to one thing, not bringing the water from Sabbath Hill to the people,” he said.
Is the Third District being spited?
A resident of Sea Cows Bay, Claire Mills, said she believes the issue is political and with General Elections around the corner the Third District is being spited. “I don’t know what is going on. I asked my friends who live in other places and they are getting water,” she said.
“In Sea Cows Bay we only get water from 5:00pm and by 6:00pm it is gone. During last week we didn’t have water for three days, three whole days,” she said.
She noted that she made a comment on Honourable Vanterpool’s Facebook page regarding the problem and she stated that he responded to her explaining about the broken pipes. “I want to know why only Sea Cows Bay have to always have water problem when nobody else has water problems…and it is happening all the time. You come home and you can’t even take a shower because the water already gone,” she said.
“I don’t think it is any broken pipe. I think it’s personal. It is something that needs to be addressed,” she said. “Why can’t we get water three days a week at least right through?” she asked.
Efforts to reach Director of the Water and Sewerage Department Perline Scatliffe Leonard for a comment proved futile. We also tried to reach Minister Vanterpool for a comment but to no avail.
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21 Responses to “Are the water shortages in SCB willful acts?”
If NDP wants to win the 3rd District they will turn off the people water and make them suffer to do so? That make any £$^"£$ sense?
It is not only Sea Cows Bay.