This organization has abandoned the Cane Grove drainage and irrigation network

Aug 17, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Could the relevant authorities in charge of the Cane Grove Water Users Association (WUA) send a team of personnel to see first-hand how this organization has abandoned the drainage and irrigation network in Cane Grove?
Myself and other farmers are ready and willing to take them by speed boat on a ten minutes drive, particularly to an area called Huntley where about thirty (30) farmers are doing cash-crop farming for over twenty-five (25) years.
On the 16th and 17th of July we had heavy rains which caused flooding to our crops.
This was as a result of the Huntley drainage trench not being cleaned for the year, although the WUA are having contractors cleaning trenches every month.
On the 17th July, six (6) of us farmers cut a track in the Huntley trench in order to access some drainage which represented about 60% of the work only to learn that a contractor was sent to do the remainder of the work. On the 3rd August myself and four (4) farmers attended a WUA meeting at the Cane Grove office to seek payments for works done on the trench among other things, only to be told that the Board will be looking to pay the contractor because they sent him to do the work.
What is important to note is that the top three executives of the Board are not Cane Grove residents but farmers (two living in Mahaica and one De Hoop) and they have no clue as to where Huntley is.
Mr. Editor, these same Board members had most of the trenches in Cane Grove rehabilitated just under three years ago and now they have put a halt to all trench cleaning in the area and are seeking Government intervention to have excavators to do the cleaning again. I don’t think this present Government can continue with this same board any longer.
Mahadeo Birbal

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