Rain brings mosquito invasion to St Croix

WHILE MANY villagers of St Croix and Barrackpore are happy for the recent rain, they now must deal with an  invasion of mosquitoes. They are now calling on Health Minister Colm Imbert to have the area sprayed immediately. Villagers of St Croix Road, say the mosquitoes are breeding in heaps of garbage  which have accumulated over the last six weeks.To add to the situation, villagers claims mosquito coils are useless for keeping the mosquitoes at bay.

“You could light one coil, two coils, it makes no difference. We even fraid to light it in the first place because we have board house and last year one house done burn down already,” said Freddy Sookoo, who warned that if the authorities don’t do anything about the situation, there will be a dengue epidemic. Walter Frederick said villagers are not to blame for the pile up of rubbish. “It have people that coming from other areas to dump rubbish in what they call the St Croix land fill.” Frederick said his nephew, Roland Mathews, 11, was hospitalised with dengue last year. “We are really scared that there might be cases of dengue and other diseases in the area,” he said.