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WAKENAAM ROADS: A LIVING NIGHTMARE
The main road around Wakenaam Island is in a deplorable condition and nothing is being done to remedy the situation. As a result, the residents are experiencing tremendous difficulties to get from one place to another.
The cost of motorized transport is astronomical. Among those who suffer most are the school children who have to ride bicycles to the secondary school on a daily basis. 
The village of Ridge on the south-eastern end of the island has been virtually cut-off from the rest of the island. The village has about thirty-eight households and the residents are unable to leave their village by the road. When it rains the road is flooded and snakes and other reptiles are seen in the huge pools of water that form there. Most secondary school children are forced to be absent on rainy days.
The main road which runs around the island is full of deep craters which take a heavy toll on the vehicles.
Residents claim that they have been neglected for the longest while. They argue that when the roads began to lapse into a state of disrepair no one made any effort to arrest the declining situation. Although there is stone to patch a section of the chipped seal road, the local Works Ministry workers have been unable to acquire two drums of tar to service the road.
What is most disturbing to the residents, is that the recently constructed chipped-seal road from Domburg to Maria’s Pleasure is no better than the crush and run road on the other side of the island.
Efforts to get a comment from the Region Three administration by telephone proved futile.
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