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Bartica/Potaro road needs comprehensive rehabilitation – says youth org.

Feb 22, 2014 News

The Bartica United Youth Development Group (BUYDG) and the residents of Bartica are calling on the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Public Works, Transport & Hydraulics to put mechanisms in the 2014 National Budget to cover finances for the rehabilitation of the Bartica/Potaro Road.
According to Micah Williams, the President of the BUYDG, the work being conducted on the Bartica/Potaro road is a total waste of taxpayers’ money. It is substandard, the group said.
Williams explained that the “residents met with the BUYDG and expressed their dissatisfaction with all of the work done on the Potato road to date.
“That road was built in the early 1900s and to date it has not enjoyed proper rehabilitation even though Government had collected a lot of revenue over the years from Bartica residents.”
Williams said that the Potaro Road was patched in parts last September. Three weeks later it was as bad as it was before the patching.
One year earlier, in September 2013, a number of residents and road users took strike action and picketed in front of the Regional Democratic Office (RDC), over the horrible condition of the Potaro road.
“A few days after the strike/picket ended the road was patched but two weeks after the very road ended up back to its horrible shoddy state”, Williams explained.
He said that the residents are fed-up seeing their tax dollars wasted in the repairing and patching of the road only to have it crumble apart. “If Government should total up the full amount of tax dollars that was spent on the road over the years the millions of dollars could have been used with some additional money to construct a highway.”
According to the BUYDG the only persons who enjoy the benefits of the Potaro road are the contractors who are awarded the contracts over the years.
Williams explained that the Potaro road will benefit residents of both Bartica and Mahdia. Those who travel to Mahdia from Bartica have to cross the Essequibo at Sherima to get to the Linden/Lethem road and then cross the Essequibo River again, near Mabura, to travel westwards overland to get to Mahdia. This, he said, is a very time consuming trip.
He said that it will also aid significantly in tourism since travelling within the region will be encouraged.

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