Dear Editor,

Several of my family members including me have been living for some years now under unbearable insanitary conditions emanating from the stench and filth in a large scale operation of the rearing of 100-odd pigs near our homes at Golden Fleece school dam area in Region #2.

The owner is showing no concern for our predicament just like the Public Health Department in the district where it was just useless to make repeated complaints about the nuisance. From all appearances, it is not a matter to be dealt with by this department having regard to the fact that nothing was done.

It must be noted that the owner and his entire household/family are not affected by the environmental health hazard for the simple reason that they live some distance away from the sties where massive expansion works take place regularly to accommodate an increase in stocks.

While the owner is engaged in augmenting his income, it should not be done to the detriment of our health which is more important than money.

Being impoverished as we are does not reduce our status from that of human beings who deserve to be given protection in such an unfair situation especially with the much publicized international dreaded disease swine flu.

Without seeing a sty as a passer-by, the foetid smell alone is always a source of annoyance or nuisance with our family members having to endure the obnoxious situation be it day or night so much so that many a time we had to abandon our homes to get relief.

During the rainy season, there is much aggravation to our suffering and discomfort with the dangerous house flies and mosquitoes becoming even more rampant.

Something needs to be done and urgently too to abate this glaring injustice once and for all.

There are bountiful areas where pigs could be reared without being a nuisance to anyone.

Yours faithfully,
Goberdan (Stanley)