Concerns raised over shoddy $300M Linden road, drainage rehab works

Community leaders and residents of Linden are continuing to highlight the substandard quality of works being done under an ongoing $300 million road and drainage rehabilitation programme.

The infrastructural works have their genesis in a commitment by President Bharrat Jagdeo in mid-2010, where he committed the funds to rehabilitate a number of roads at Mackenzie and Wismar.

Contracts were awarded to several companies and the works commenced in the latter part of 2011. However, from the