Over 250 roads in Region 6 to be upgraded before year-end

Coming out of its 2022 budgeted work programme under roads, more than 250 roads are to be upgraded before the end of the year. This is according to Chairman of that region, David Armogan.
He said most of the road projects are being done through the Public Works Ministry.
“Right now contracts are being given out to do at least 20-odd roads in the Whim/Bloomfield area, Hampshire area and in the Chesney area. Measurements are also taking place within the Canje area and some of the other areas where roads are in a deplorable state. Hopefully, by the end of the year, quite a number of road works would be completed and so persons would be much happier than they are today,” Armogan said while addressing the media on developments in the region.
According to him, the major complaints received are those relating to roads.
Sonata Satrohan, a resident of Marigold Street, Springlands Corriverton, told this publication that she has been living there for decades.
“This street is very bad for a long piece of time. We went to the Town Council and we made complaints and there is nothing. We even offered that if they give us the stuff we could self-help and make the street but there is nothing till today and the street is very bad,” she disclosed.
There have been numerous calls for the access roads at Chesney Housing Scheme to be repaired, with residents telling stories of damage to their vehicles as a result of the state of those roads.
The situation in not much different at Fort Ordinance, where the housing scheme is being extended and 100 houses are being constructed. Vehicles transporting material for that project have made the already bad roads worst.
Work is slated to commence at Chesney shortly.
There have also been many complaints coming out of sections of East Canje over the state of some access streets.
According to Armogan, measurements are currently taking place in East Canje for road works.

“We will also be looking at the New Area in Canefield, Canje, to do the entire road network there before the end of this year. Where we have narrow roads, what we are doing is concrete strips and the major roads we are doing in asphalt. The priorities will be in areas where we have health centres and schools.”
However, despite this, there have been complaints by some sections that work is only slated for communities that support the current Administration.
“In terms of selection of roads, it has nothing to do with who is living where. This is a question of roads that are bad. We are doing roads in Manchester; we are doing roads in Alness. If what people are saying that it is some other forms of selection based political considerations, that is not true because if you look at it, we are doing roads right across the region – apart from Manchester and Alness area, we are also doing roads in the 51 Village area. While some people might want to make those kinds of accusations, I don’t think that it has any accuracy attached to it.”
The Chairman noted that President Dr Irfaan Ali has been clear in his instructions to regional officials on his One Guyana notion.
“We are dealing with One Guyana and therefore no area must be left out. We must be able to deal with all the areas or else he himself will come down and deal with us condemningly,” Armogan added. (G4)