DePeiza, taking up St Lucy’s plight, calls for desalination
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President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Verla DePeiza on Monday urged the Government to seriously pursue water desalination as a meaningful solution over the short, medium and long term for the residents of St. Lucy, whose votes she intends to seek as a candidate in the next general election.
DePeiza declared St Lucy folk have been forced to contend with dirty water or none at all for years.
She made the appeal while delivering cases of potable water to the constituency’s residents a little over a week after expressing her desire to represent them in Parliament.
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The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) said today that its new reservoir at Boscobel, St Peter has been completed.
“The tank now needs to be sanitised, commissioned and put into supply,” a brief statement said.
The BWA said that “in an effort to press this facility into service as soon as possible”, staff will be filling the tank between 10 p.m. and midnight for approximately 12 successive nights beginning today, in order to conduct the final sanitisation of the reservoir.
Customers in the following areas will be affected during the stated period:
St Lucy: Durhams, Jemmotts, Rock Hall, Mount View, Glendalough Road, Peterses, Josey Hill, Lamberts, Mount Gay Village, Alexandria, Church Hill, Cave Hill, Graveyard Road, Blacksage Alley, Harmony and surrounding districts.
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Khalil Anderson Chandler knew he was out after hours when he was trying to get a ride from Warrens to St Lucy.
“I know I was breaching curfew but I missed the last bus,” he told the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Chandler, a 32-year-old roofer of Josey Hill, St Lucy, had just pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 1, Subparagraph (3) of the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocols Special Curfew No. 2 Directive 2021, in that there being a directive requiring every person to observe such social distancing and associated protocols in the interest of public health, he failed to comply by leaving his home between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. as specified in Subparagraph (1), and he was not an employee or a member of the essential services or a person who had an emergency, on February 2.
Barbados Today February 4, 2021
Josey Hill, St Lucy resident Khalil Anderson Chandler was found walking along the Cummings section of the ABC Highway going in the direction of Warrens around 11 p.m. last night.
When the 32-year-old was stopped by police and asked his reason for being on the road at that hour he told them that he had missed the bus and was attempting to hitch a ride with a family member in Warrens.
“Officer I know it is curfew time, I just missed the bus and heading by my cousin now,” Chandler who works as a roofer told police at the time.