Mocha residents highlight road, drainage woes to Local Govt Minister
Enhancement works in the areas of drainage and road infrastructure at Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara (EBD), is one of the areas which the Local Government Ministry is paying attention to after several issues were raised by concerned residents.
A section of the roadway in Mocha
Local Government and Regional Development Minister, Nigel Dharamlall met with residents, farmers and the Mocha/Arcadia Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) on Thursday, where residents complained of inadequate drainage in the community. This has been coupled with poor roads and other utility issues.
During the meeting, one resident stated “Coming into the road, there are a number of lights but there’s a lot that’s missing and that are not working. Then if you look at the streets, the entire community, every street is in a deplorable state.”
In response, Minister Dharamlall indicated that additional community enhancement workers will be sent to the village, as well as other officers to conduct an assessment of current infrastructure.
“We will do some trench cleaning. The engineer will come tomorrow and do an assessment of all the chokepoints in the community. He will also do a conditional survey of all the roads the community. We have also said that we will employ seven additional enhancement workers who will begin work to enhance the NDC area as well. We have said that we’ll get the names of those persons that are getting bills from GPL but are not actually receiving electricity. Somebody got to make sure that we get those names so that we could deal with it,” he pointed out.
Meanwhile, in response to the road woes, the Public Works Ministry will also have a hand in assisting with finding a solution. However, the Minister could not give a timeline for such project.
“We have also said that we will do some road upgrade. I can’t commit the exact time we will be able to do it but in my discussion with one of the Ministers of Public Works, they indicated that they will come in to see how they can help to do some things.”
