Infuriated Ferry Reach residents warned they will seek vigilante justice on a bullying developer who crushes rocks on Sunday mornings and covers their homes in dust.

Anchorage View Lane resident Earl Robinson said life had become unbearable at home because Rodrigues Excavating and Trucking are levelling the site to build ten, three-storey warehouses each with a 16,000 gallon water tank, 44 parking spaces and access roads for Tiqvah Holdings.

And Opposition Senate Leader Kim Swan said any developer who intimidates residents must be stopped.

?It needs to stop,? Senator Swan said. ?It may have to be the Department of Planning. The situation bothers me and the residents are expressing the situation may get out of hand.?

When visited the site on Wednesday, where the foundations for the warehouses are just being laid, a collection of sand-sifters, trucks and bulldozers were crawling over the site where the stale smell of dust hung in the air.

In September 2004, residents held an on-site protest when a significant, unexplored cave was covered over by developers.

The Ministry of the Environment ordered owner Paul Rodrigues to uncover the cave and a stop work order was issued when it was discovered he was operating under a two-year-old permit for concrete silos, when Tiqvah was supposed to be building warehouses.

Over a year later, the constant noise and intimidation has driven residents back to anger.

?The problem is that what they are doing is excavating until 10 p.m. at night,? Mr. Robinson said yesterday. ?I come home and my house is vibrating. We go down to talk to them but they don?t care.?

He added Mr. Rodrigues? behaviour was terrible and that he did not care about the residents.

?He is nasty,? Mr. Robinson said. ?He thinks he can do whatever he wants to do.?

The rock-crushers have been switched on at 7 a.m. on Sunday, however, this went against advice from the Department of Planning, he said.

?I went up to Planning and it states they are to use their rock-crushers from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Monday to Saturday,? he said.

He said it was unfortunate there was no law about development until a decent hour as the law stated work could commence at sunrise.

He said Mr. Rodrigues was excavating and trucking away huge amounts of soil and sand from the site.

?Rodrigues has started his own aggregate business down here. He has stone crushers and sifters,? he said. ?But I thought you needed to have a licence to run an aggregate business.?

A spokesman from the Department of Environmental Protection confirmed Mr. Rodrigues had been granted a licence to operate the rock-crusher and sifter until March 2006, but not on Sundays.

In April, Mr. Rodrigues was arrested near Devonshire Marsh as Police attempted to confiscate two pieces of industrial equipment they said the company had been operating illegally.

He was arrested for obstructing Police after allegedly blocking the property?s narrow roadways with construction vehicles.

In Ferry Reach this week, the sand and soil Mr. Rodrigues is excavating is left uncovered and was being blown onto roofs and into water tanks.

?I told them about the sand but they don?t care,? he said. ?I talked to Rodrigues but he said ?it had nothing to with me.??

He said he also spoke with one of Tiqvah Holdings? directors, Steven Daniels, but he said the sand had nothing to do with him and he should speak to Mr. Rodrigues.

?They are playing games,? he said. ?Someone is going to get hurt.?

The Bermuda Police Service have been called so often already they no longer go up to the site anymore, he said.

?We called the Police on Monday and on several prior occasions,? he said. ?I am very angry. One of Rodrigues? guys told me, ?Wait until we get in front of your house?. I am not going to take that. If they try it in front of my house it is not going to happen.?

He added that sick and elderly people were being driven from their homes because of the noise and dust.

When asked about the noise, Mr. Rodrigues told he was not in the construction business so he would not know anything about it.