Next to the decrepit wooden bridge that leads into Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara are two piles of crush and run gravel. The small piles were supposed to fill the cavernous holes in the roadway but two months after they were delivered by the Ministry of Public Works following pleas by residents, they sit unused.
It is not an easy road to Garden of Eden. One resident told Stabroek News that the road, Second Dam, is the only entry and exit to this part of Garden of Eden which includes a new housing development located less than two miles along the roadway. “The road is unusable when the rain falls. We’ve been forced to cut through it to allow the water to move,” the resident who declined to be named, said.
“The Public [Works] Ministry promised 60 tonnes of crush and run and we said we would even do it ourselves, try and fix the road, but those two small piles is what they brought and just left,” he said adding that residents have had multiple meetings with the
