Sugar workers trucks sink in East Berbice road craters

Region 6 Vice Chairman, Bhopaul Jhagroo surrounded by reporters and residents

Anger and frustration boiled over again yesterday 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 worst section of the road— Heathburn— to vent their frustration as calls for a new road were renewed.

Sugar workers said that the