AFC Councillor calls for road maintenance in Region 2

Government Councillor Naithram is calling on the Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) administration to fix the countless potholes along the main public road in Region Two rather than depending on the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to act.
Naithram, who was at the time speaking at the region’s monthly statutory Regional Democratic Council (RDC) meeting last Monday, pointed to the situation which he said, is worsening daily.

“I am of the view that these holes can be fixed by the regional administration’s roads department. Why wait till it get worst and then more money will be spending” the Councillor said.
He said too that drivers and commuters traversing the roads are complaining and there have been no improvements to date. Naithram also highlighted the deplorable conditions of the roads in the Charity Housing Scheme and other such schemes within the region.
In response, Head of the Region Two RDC, Devanand Ramdatt, explained that several emails were sent to the subject Minister, David Patterson, highlighting the issue. Ramdatt added that in August 2016, an email was written to Minister Patterson for the upgrading of the Onderneeming access road and several other roads and to date, no positive response has been forthcoming. He reminded that residents on the Essequibo Coast have also recently protested over the deplorable road conditions.

During interviews conducted by Guyana Times, many concerned residents from various villages called for the upgrading of their streets and access roads. Several streets in the communities of Golden Fleece, Johanna Cecila, Anna Regina, Perseverance, Lima, Charity, Suddie, Riverstown, and Zorg are in urgent need of maintenance.