Hauraruni road not upgraded in 30 years

Concerned residents of Hauraruni Village, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, are calling on the relevant authorities to hear their pleas and urgently repair their rapidly deteriorating main access road.
According to residents who reached out to Guyana Times, the community has a clinic and schools (nursery, primary, and secondary), which are all utilised by its 250 residents and other persons of nearby communities, but the road is in a bad state.
These persons have been using the deteriorated main access road to access these facilities, a resident said.
There has been no sign of rehabilitation plans being put into place, although the Community Development Council (CDC) Chairman as well as religious leaders within the community had written multiple letters to the Public Infrastructure Ministry on the matter.
Hauraruni CDC Chairman Debra Wong told this publication that there has been no response to the letters to date and no work done on the road for decades.
“To date, there has been no response, I’ve planned to visit and I plan to write again (to the Public Infrastructure Ministry), but previously other leaders would have been writing over the years, no response.… a letter was also sent to the national CDC officer… the Government not doing anything on the road…under the previous administration, we were told that our community is a private community and nothing can be done about our road. But we still pursue, we still continue writing.”
In addition, the residents are frustrated, since they have to traverse the road with their vehicles, which is proving costly since damage is recorded daily.
According to the residents, when it rains, it is difficult to travel since the road is in a bad state and it is too far to walk (to get out of the village).
Another resident, Pastor Jonathan Banwarie related to this newspaper that “the road has been in a deteriorated state over 30 years. We wrote letters and we’ve been appealing to the Government a while now. We are very much affected, because in here we have farmers who would have to take out their produce, people who normally go out with their vehicles, it would damage the vehicle tyres and parts.
“It’s the main road. And we, the villagers, would try to make it, but we never got any help from the Government. We would normally take broken bricks and put them on the road,” he said.
He also related that the church in Hauraruni is known for holding conferences, conventions and youths camps with over 800 persons attending and that was one of the reasons why the road should be fixed.