Mos­qui­toes in the North, mos-quitoes in the South, mos­qui­toes in the East, mos­qui­toes in the West ...and I dare say in To­ba­go! What is the cause of this dread­ed in­va­sion?

Every­one I've spo­ken to says they are try­ing the rac­quet, the coils, the cit­ronel­la oil, wear­ing long cloth­ing. Can the au­thor­i­ties, the in­sect vec­tor of­fice, the Min­istry of Health, and the Agri­cul­ture Min­istry, please make a pub­lic state­ment on this as a mat­ter of ur­gency?

We the pub­lic need pro­fes­sion­al ad­vice on how to han­dle this, as it is a se­ri­ous health prob­lem. Last year, a neigh­bour died as a re­sult of her third at­tack of dengue fever.

J W-Schmid­ham­mer

Mara­cas Val­ley, St Joseph