Air Services fashions road to West Berbice remigrants scheme

Jul 31, 2016 News

Equipment deployed by a private company to fix access road

Residents of the rapidly developing housing scheme situated south of the Region Five administrative block in Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice, are soon to benefit from a proper access road, thanks to a private company.

The scheme known as Catherina’s Lust South, has been established by the Hopetown Multipurpose Cooperative Company Limited. A number of remigrants have been setting up their homes there. However, there has been some controversy over the half mile stretch of access road between the community and the public road.

Elements within the RDC have been objecting to the road being upgraded despite the difficulties facing residents during the rainy season. Residents have been forced to make their way through heavy mud to get to work, and at the end of the day, kick off their working shoes for the long boots; many of them senior officers of the Regional Administration.

Regional Chairman, Vickchand Ramphal, addressing a gathering during Coop Week recently, promised to do what he could to bring relief to the community. He said that he was aware of the difficulties they were experiencing.

He is on record as having said that one possibility would have been to include the project in next year’s budget. Relief, however, has come to the community much earlier, for work is currently being done on the road.

According to the workmen on site, Air Services Limited, and its associates have been given permission by the relevant authorities to upgrade the road. The work plan is to build the road to a certain level with loam and then use “crusher run” to complete the surface, effectively making it an all-weather road.

The private company has installations in the area and would use the very road to get to its facility. Rice farmers also use the very road, which, during the rainy season, would quickly become deplorable because of the many tractors using it.

Air Services Limited has an aerodrome in the vicinity. The company uses aircraft in the rice industry to broadcast seeds as well as to apply fertilizer to the rice crop.

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