A young woman in Jamaica has gone public with claims that her brother deliberately contaminated her home’s water supply, endangering her children and other family members. In a series of social media videos, she recounted a series of events that began with a family dispute over the brother’s personal relationships.
According to the woman, the dispute began Thursday night, before the poisoning, when her brother was caught by his partner with another woman at his home. She said her brother blamed her for alerting his partner and issued threats against her and her siblings. While she denied informing the partner about his infidelity, her brother still accuses her.
The following morning, while preparing breakfast, she and her partner noticed that the water from their home’s 6,000-gallon black tank was discoloured and foamy. She said she questioned her stepfather about the blue colour of the water, and he confirmed that water contaminated with a chemical like Grammazone would cause discolouration.
The woman claims the act was deliberate. She alleges her brother “poison[ed] the tank of water” despite children and an elderly man living on the premises, describing six people in total who rely on that supply.
Police were contacted to investigate the alleged poisoning. Officers reportedly examined the tank and could detect a chemical smell, but could not confirm the source or identify the person responsible since the act was not witnessed. Despite these limitations, the authorities advised the woman to preserve the contaminated water as evidence.
The young woman expressed disbelief and hurt over her brother’s alleged actions, noting the potential danger posed to her children and other residents of the home. She described growing up closely with her brother, feeling a bond similar to that of twins, and struggling to understand where such animosity came from. She also alleged that her mother sided with her brother during the dispute.
On Saturday, she left briefly for the supermarket. When she returned, her baby’s father pointed out the grass where she had earlier thrown some of the contaminated water; it was scorched, she says. She went to record more video but found no water coming from the pipe.
Despite the police warning not to tamper with evidence, she alleges “the criminal… him and his mother” had emptied the tank. After informing the police, an officer arrived at her home and went to address her brother, who lives nearby. When speaking to the police, her brother denied poisoning the water. The officer then questioned him about his relationship to the complainant and, she says, asked whether he “would really kill off your sister, your nieces and nephews.”
At that point, the sister says their mother intervened angrily, hurling profanities, and challenged the officer’s request for the brother’s ID. According to the sister, her mother admitted she was the one who emptied the tank, saying she wanted to test the water by pouring some on the grass.
Her mother also questioned how her son would get access to such a chemical so late at night. However, the complainant notes that her mother is a farmer, cultivating yams, plantains, sweet potatoes, and carrots and raising livestock, and “has every farmer chemical you can think of,” a detail she includes to argue that chemicals were accessible. She also said she heard her mother saying her brother was circling the house, apparently in search of something, during the night.
According to the video, the complainant and her brother were born a year apart and were “raised like twin(s)”. However, she believes their mother always sides with them, a dynamic she says dates back to childhood.
“What kind of heart do you have in you to try to poison your sister… your nieces and nephew?” she asks. She says faith keeps her steady and that she has documented enough evidence, although they attempted to get rid of it.
