The Regional Five administration has denied accusations that it paid for subpar work on the Burma Road, saying that only 10% of the maintenance works has been done and the remainder has been stalled by the weather.
Due to the inclement weather, road works as a whole have been put on hold throughout the region, the administration said in press release, which was issued in response to a July 7th report carried in the Sunday Stabroek, headlined “Burma Road broken up two weeks after $7.5M rehab works.”
The report quoted residents who questioned the quality of the work on the five-mile stretch of road at Burma, West Coast Berbice, saying that millions in taxpayers’ dollars had been spent once more on a road that will only last “two mornings.” During this
