Residents claim authorities are ignoring their calls for action over an eyesore house which they say is used by drug addicts.

The people living in Foot Bridge Lane, near Glebe Road, in Pembroke, say they have complained for years about human faeces, used needles and rubbish they say is thrown into the street from the house.

Cassandra Simmons contacted The Royal Gazette tohighlight the problem after residents grew tired of complaining to the authorities.

“Our neighbourhood has three houses in the area and above it is this house, where they toss any and everything over the embankment which ends up in the driveway and on cars,” she said.

“The property has an out-house without plumbing so they use a bucket and the faeces gets thrown off the bank.

“There’s a primary school nearby and now we have little kids who I have to stop after they pick up the debris which also has used needles in it.

“I blame the Government because they’re out there doing everything else besides fixing one of our major problems in this Island.

“My neighbours asked me why am I wasting my time, because some of them have been here for 20 years and Government has never done anything about the problem.

“After Hurricane Fabian destroyed part of the out-house, I called the Department of Health who told the owner to board it up, but people still use it.

“Police came to the property on numerous occasions and told me there’s nothing that they can do because it’s a crack-house. I still can’t believe they said that to me.”

One other resident, who would not be named, said she was disgusted and tormented by the health risks which she says has been an issue for at least 20 years.

The Ministry of Health acknowledged it had received complaints about the location but said the area posed no threat to public health.

Permanent Secretary Warren Jones said environmental health inspectors and Police visited the site last summer after complaints about dog faeces but saw no human faecal matter.

“The Health Department noted some broken glass but no faeces or needles were evident during inspection,” he stated.

“And, during a more recent visit by the health department, there was again, no evidence of a situation that could be classified as a public health nuisance.

“We do not believe that there is a hazardous threat at that address. Should evidence appear to the contrary, we will take the appropriate steps.”

However, Police spokesman Robin Simmons said: “The house in question has been a concern to the Bermuda Police Service for quite some time.

“It is a complex situation, however, Police are working with the relevant agencies to achieve a solution suitable for everyone.”

And responding to the Ministry’s statement, Ms Simmons alleged: “The Health Department told me themselves that it was a problem, they’ve been up here, I was here with them, how could they say that?

“Health Department officials came to my job, picked me up and took me to my house and looked around the perimeter.

“I was told the area was a health hazard and they found a huge barrow of sewage that was full of mosquitoes as well as pots and pans filled with water at the crack-house.

“They don’t want to outright fix the problem. They suggested to me that all of us in the neighbourhood get together and clean it up. “I told them, ‘are you crazy? I’m not going up there in that filth. It has faeces, needles and everything you can think of, that has been thrown there.”

When contacted, the owner of the controversial property party acknowledged the problem.

He said he was given a container to store trash, by the Ministry of Works and Engineering, but they later took it away.

He also denied that faeces, needles and bottles were being thrown from his property but plans to have the yard and out-house cleaned up at his own expense.