MAROONED residents of the seaside community of Portland Cottage in Clarendon, one of several battered by the force of Hurricane Dean on Sunday, are angry.

A day after Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller promised to dispatch 100 relief workers to the community to assist with hurricane recovery efforts, no one visited the the parish up until late yesterday.

The prime minister was quoted in the electronic media as saying 100 relief workers would be sent to the community yesterday. However, even at minutes to 5:00 pm, no one turned up.

“We a suffer bad, almost everyone feel the hands of the Dean, yet we no see nobody a try help we. One ting me know, me nah vote,” one woman shouted as she jostled in line for water at a large tank.

A water truck was in the community yesterday distributing water. However, despite their gratitude, the residents say the water was not fit for consumption.

They cried for drinking water at various points in the community.

“We no have nutten fi drink around here. You carry any water wid you?” one man said to the Observer team.

A few hundred feet down the road the cry was the same.

“You bring any water weh we can drink?” one obviously thirsty woman pleaded.