Deplorable state of Puruni road a real nightmare for miners

Dear Editor,
Please permit me a space in your column to express the distress and plight of miners who contribute greatly to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. We pay a lot of royalties to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), which is supposed to be for the purpose of enhancing the mining industry.
Roads are very important to miners in gaining access to their work lands. The Puruni road being one of the major roads is in a deplorable state and monies have already been budgeted for this road. It is time for these monies to come out of the newspapers and be put to work.
At this point, many miners have closed their dredges because it is very expensive and impossible to get to their work ground. The road is impassable, trucks are being covered in slush, bikes and cruisers cannot pass and people are being stranded.
Miners do not know who is responsible for the repairs and maintenance of roads and bridges. But at this moment many of them need urgent attention. The syndicate body is appealing to the rightful authorities, asking for these roads to be urgently dealt with because people’s lives are disrupted, vehicles are damaged and the journey that takes hours now takes days. This is a real nightmare and is unacceptable.

Thank you,
Leon Moses
Secretary,
National Mining
Syndicate