Like many tax-pay­ing cit­i­zens across the coun­try, res­i­dents of Glen­coe are cry­ing out against ne­glect. We are call­ing on the var­i­ous au­thor­i­ties to pro­vide the area with ba­sic in­fra­struc­ture as we suf­fer from in­ad­e­quate street light­ing along the La Hor­quette Val­ley Road (the site of a re­cent mur­der), bro­ken pave­ments which stop abrupt­ly and the main con­cern of res­i­dents who live on a hill or in­cline-no wa­ter.

The area is served by a Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day night wa­ter sched­ule. Imag­ine in this day and age wa­ter is ra­tioned in a coun­try like T&T. This sched­ule is de­pen­dent up­on re­spon­si­ble and dili­gent op­er­a­tors who send wa­ter our way when and for the du­ra­tion they should so that wa­ter tanks are filled for the fol­low­ing two days of "drought."

This of­ten does not hap­pen. We get the wrong kind of "pres­sure" dur­ing hol­i­days like Car­ni­val and Christ­mas. La Hor­quette Val­ley Road is a flow­ing stream be­cause of the num­ber of leaks which oc­cur on a week­ly ba­sis along the road. And though WASA is over­staffed by 2,800 peo­ple, the leaks con­tin­ue.

Re­cent­ly, res­i­dents spent three days with­out wa­ter be­cause a land de­vel­op­er had a leak­ing tank and was giv­en an op­por­tu­ni­ty by WASA to fix the prob­lem. Our MP is quite a busy man. So we have lit­tle ex­pec­ta­tion that he will lend a hand. Our on­ly hope is that the au­thor­i­ties at the Min­istries of Pub­lic Util­i­ties and Works take up our plight.

A Ajim

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