When would the Naamryck all weather road be completed

Jun 28, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write in disgust and total frustration. The problem is the completion of a farm to market access road at Naamryck on the East Bank of Essequibo.
This is a farming community with immense potential and if this Government is really serious about developing agriculture, then they should start looking at this basic infrastructure.
A part of the road has already been completed, and farmers are calling for the construction of the other half of the road.

We the poor farmers in this community find it difficult to transport our produce to the market to get a decent price. It is one thing that the New Guyana Marketing Corporation cannot find markets for our produce and another that we cannot have proper roads to transport it to the markets.
Is that what the lives of farmers have come to? The part of the road that was built was done because people lived there. Farmers who live on the other half of the dam cannot afford to transport their produce to the market in a non-perishable way because of the lack of roads.

If that part of the road is completed, it will be of great ease to farmers and thus help to improve the lives of these poor rural households, and it will also encourage more framers to return to the land.
Economically it makes better sense to build the other half of the access road, rather than to have everyone use the Parika Backdam road. It is not feasible for farmers, who are closer to the road with the Naamrcky side to go all the way around, using the Parika Backdam road, as it is more expensive. .
Farmers should not be treated the way they are being treated. We too have the right to a decent lifestyle and the ideology that farmers should be a poor group of people needs to be eradicated from the minds of our politicians. We demand better service.
Melliot Singh

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