Palm Grove Court residents protest lack of water

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | 12:31 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica- Residents of Palm Grove Court on Brotherton Avenue in Kingston 13, this morning staged a peaceful protest against what they claimed is a lack adequate of water supply to the community since January.The Palm Grove Court is a housing scheme that was constricted by the previous administration under the inner city housing project and is controlled by the National Housing Trust.Residents say a defective pump has been the cause of their woes and took to the streets to air their grouse.“Seven months now we don’t get no water, we have to be going over to people’s house and begging water and carrying water up to the third and fourth floor,” one woman said.Another man who clanged two pot covers together loudly expressed worry that diseases would soon break out in the community because of a lack of water. “It’s summer now and there are a lot of children in the community, we are afraid of cholera and other diseases. We need water now,’ the man said.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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Palm Grove Court residents protest lack of water