Gordon Town residents fear more landslides will bring death

"We are scared" are the words coming from the lips of scores of residents in Gordon Town, St Andrew, having witnessed major landslides in the area.

They believe if these landslides continue, they will sooner or later result in death.

"Right now if this rain continue, it a go be judgement up here so. We nuh see nothing yet. Me feel worried because all the banking side them a break away and is them have to hold up the place to make it safer. If we lose the banking, houses will be gone and life, too, because people live in there," said Gregory Taylor, who has lived in the community for 45 years.

The roadways are now littered with rocks and trees that have been uprooted from their habitat in the skyline of the mountains. A section of the main roadway in the rural area has been completely eroded since yesterday. Motorists can no longer traverse it, and residents are afraid to use the thin track that remains.

Build some retaining wall

The Gordon Town main road links rural communities such as Irish Town and Mount Charles to the Corporate Area.

"Me feel like the Government needs to build some retaining wall at the more difficult side because people live on the land and they will die. Them might not be paying tax but them is a part of the society and it need them," Taylor told THE STAR.

"First in history me ever see a landslide like this. Right now I'm afraid because we don't know what to expect and if something is not done, people will die," Dave Black told THE STAR. "Right now me feel like a God a come for the world because stone and trees just a roll like in a movie. Me just a wonder when it's going to stop because we just can't relax in a surrounding like this."

Efforts were made by the National Works Agency (NWA) to clear the landslide last Saturday, but the attempts were in vain as more mud and debris came crashing down.

Cindy Brown said that she feels as though the breakage will continue.

"Me scared to walk across it because me don't know if it a go break off again and a bare big stone a roll down, and if them drop on you a trouble," said Brown. "It leave me to wonder if a something a happen on the hilltop, like a river a run or what because this is unusual."