Sascha Wil­son

With the en­tire road plagued by ma­jor land­slips, res­i­dents of Di­a­mond Road, St Croix Vil­lage, Princes Town, now fear that very soon, they will be boxed in.

Res­i­dents were close to tears yes­ter­day when Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed, as they ex­pressed their frus­tra­tion over the per­ilous con­di­tions of the road. Sev­er­al hous­es are al­so in jeop­ardy.

The two ac­cess points to the com­mu­ni­ty from Re­alise Road and St Croix Road are com­pro­mised but a few res­i­dents still risk pass­ing with their ve­hi­cles.

Try­ing to con­tain her emo­tions, res­i­dent Deb­bie Nobbe plead­ed with the au­thor­i­ties to come to their aid be­fore some­one is se­ri­ous­ly hurt.

“Right now I am very frus­trat­ed and scared. I am go­ing through a lot of anx­i­ety be­cause I can­not pass out here...the road is just cav­ing, cav­ing away, every­thing is go­ing down,” lament­ed Nobbee.

She said her broth­er-in-law’s car al­most slipped down one of the land­slips on Mon­day morn­ing.

“I need some­thing to be done. My daugh­ter has to go to school to­mor­row. She is in Form Five, she has her SBAs. I don’t know how she is go­ing to get to school to­mor­row. My car can­not be­gin to pass there.”

An­oth­er res­i­dent, Zaid Mo­hammed, said on Sat­ur­day they bought ma­te­r­i­al and tried to re­pair the land­slip so they could pass, but the ma­te­r­i­al has since washed away.

Com­plain­ing that the road has been cav­ing for the past four years, he said the road has about six land­slips.

“If we have an emer­gency in­side of here is a big prob­lem, am­bu­lance can’t come. We done have prob­lem, as the rub­bish truck can­not pass in­side here. We had no wa­ter about three weeks ago, the wa­ter truck could not come in­side here. It just keep get­ting worse,” he said.

Al­lan St George, who lives in front of an­oth­er land­slip, said the sit­u­a­tion is re­al­ly bad and needs ur­gent at­ten­tion.

With the very ac­tive rainy sea­son, he said the land keeps slip­ping and soon they will be cut off.

An­oth­er land­slip has al­ready al­most tak­en the en­tire road, cut­ting off res­i­dents from one end to the an­oth­er end of the com­mu­ni­ty.

An­oth­er res­i­dent, Alana Mitchell, said wa­ter is flow­ing from the road in­to her prop­er­ty.

Mean­while, Moru­ga/Table­land MP Michelle Ben­jamin said while the road falls un­der the cor­po­ra­tion, they do not have the funds to ini­ti­ate re­pairs.

Ex­plain­ing that the cor­po­ra­tion is re­spon­si­ble for Na­pari­ma, Princes Town and Moru­ga/Table­land, she said all those ar­eas are plagued with land­slips. She said her con­stituen­cy alone has over 76 ac­tive land­slips.

Ben­jamin said she has been writ­ing let­ters to the min­istries since she came in­to of­fice and as re­cent­ly as last week, but noth­ing has been done.