Sugar workers trucks sink in East Berbice road craters

Bhopaul Jhagroo surrounded by reporters and residents today

Anger and frustration boiled over again today along the East Bank Berbice road corridor as trucks transporting sugar workers and belonging to the Guyana Sugar Corporation became stuck in the huge craters along the roadway.

When Stabroek News arrived at the chaotic scene, traffic had ground to a halt and scores of concerned residents and hire car operators as well as the occupants of the estate trucks, the sugar workers, congregated along the poorest section of the road– Heathburn– to vent their frustration as calls for a new road were renewed.

Sugar workers said that the trucks