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Deplorable road woes continue…“GPL refused to come put on my light because of this ‘back dam’ road”- Westminster resident
Everyone seems to have a story to tell as it relates to the deplorable condition of roads in most parts of the country. Those living in Westminster, La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, are no different.
Kaieteur News recently visited several streets in the area where persons complained that even the drivers of sand trucks are refusing to “put strain on their vehicles” and risk injuring themselves by delivering much needed construction materials to customers.
“People does be facing losses, because our building materials that we buy, we gotto use it to full the swimming pools on these roads…plus, we does got to account for it when we sending in our home loan reports to the bank. Then it got some of those who does tell you straight up that they are not coming in,” one woman said.
The condition of one of the roads at Westminster, in La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme
She added that the roads pose as a grave inconvenience. This would in turn pose as an inconvenience to those building their homes on loans or on a tight budget. Shop owners are also at a point where delivery vans are avoiding taking their orders, so as to avoid the road.
Nalini Singh, who recently moved into Westminster, said that apart from delaying the construction of her home at Last Bridge, the road has also been the cause for her not receiving electricity weeks after making payments to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).
“A GPL contractor guy refused to come to my home to put on my current. I paid my money more than three weeks now, but I still got to suffer. The man refused to drive his vehicle through my street. And I don’t blame him because I have a vehicle too, and this road damaging it every day. They got to see how soon they gon fix these roads,” Singh added.
Meanwhile, in the latter part of last month (May) the Ministry of Housing and Water had announced that several roads will see upgrades and maintenance this year, 2013.
The 2013 work programme caters for upgrading of roads in Parfaite Harmonie, Westminster, Onderneeming, Recht-Door-Zee and Schoonord Housing Schemes to asphaltic concrete surfaces, amounting to 12km, and construction of an alternative access road (approximately eight metres wide and 2.8 km long), within the vicinity of Goed Fortuin, linking the West Bank Public Road to the La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme.
When contacted, Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali said that works have already started on the project.
The housing ministry had also said that it will be expanding the housing area with additional works later this year.
In addition, the 2013 work programme would also include new infrastructural development at Plantation Lust-En-Rust which is immediately west of Plantation Recht-Door-Zee, phases- I and II which is expected to bring direct benefit to more than 1,500 families. Nonetheless, while the residents are thankful for the upgrade initiative, they are calling on the housing ministry to speed up the process, as many are faced with extreme discomfort as well as financial expenses.
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