Branch Road, De Hoop, Mahaica, which was rehabilitated less than two years ago by H Nauth & Sons Construction Company has already started to deteriorate and residents have expressed disappointment.

When this newspaper visited the area last week, residents said there had been a huge hole at the centre of the road and apart from it being an encumbrance to traffic it had posed a traffic hazard.

One man said he decided to fill the hole with an “old tyre, bricks and quarry because I realised the danger. If we allow the road to go more bad is we gon punish.”

He said too the hole was there for a few weeks and “no one wanted to take the trouble of fixing it. People who don’t know the road could make accident in the nights and die…”…..