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Fort Ordnance residents close down housing scheme
Residents of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme in East Canje staged a protest and blocked the entrance to the scheme on Thursday morning as a way of expressing their outrage at a road contractor in the area appointed by the Region Six Democratic Council to carry out road repair works.
The residents said that the contractor has damaged the entrance road into their scheme and this has caused immense flooding in the area every time it rains heavily and especially during high tides.
The flooded street
According to the residents, they made representation on numerous occasions to the Regional Chairman who promised to visit but never did.
Last Monday, the Chairman and his team did visit the Sheet Anchor area but did not go into the Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme. The flooding problem as been aggravated due to the intense rains experienced over the past days in Canje.
School children are suffering badly as they have to wear long boots to school and it was reported, too, that an ambulance became stuck on Wednesday in the huge craters on the road. A few men had to assist in getting the vehicle out of the hole.
On Thursday, the residents made a blockade with their vehicles and staged a protest by the entrance road to the scheme.
Car and taxi operators, they said, are calling for $1,000 to take passengers in the housing scheme.
Some persons who owned cars also complained about the high expense they would normally have to bear due to the bad road posing a threat to their vehicle.
Residents of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme said that the koker in the area is a white elephant and is not being maintained or used.
At present, the large playground area used for sports and Easter Monday kiteflying is inundated.
The residents are peeved at the fact that road bars that once protected their area from heavy duty trucks and vehicles were removed by the road contractor and they blamed him for destroying the road network in the scheme.
They are giving the regional officials until today to act, after which they will block a larger potion of the road, including the Rampersaud Avenue section which they said was supposed to have been rehabilitated a few months ago, but regional officials once again broke that promise to them.
(Leon Suseran)
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