Ashdeane Village in Black Rock, St Michael, is an environmental health hazard, residents claim as they reveal bodies riddled with mosquito bites.
Black Rock was placed on the list of high-priority areas for mosquito fogging when health officials resumed the action because of a dengue outbreak last month.
Richard Allsop said he had already caught Zika, chikungunya and dengue and was fed up with the state of a canal in the area which they had been trying to have cleared and cleaned.
“I have to come and put in oil to try and kill some of these mosquitoes. I’ve called the environmental department at the Branford Taitt Polyclinic but they say they had to get someone from drainage to clear the canal first. When the men do come, they pelt all the stuff up on the side and it gets washed back in,” he said.
Allsop said the well was not deep enough and while it needed sinking, it would be better if there was no well rather than it making the neighbourhood a prime breeding zone for the disease-carrying vectors. (CA)