Frustrated residents of the East Bank Demerara community of Garden of Eden say that they are disgusted and fed up after making pleas to those in authority about the decrepit bridge only to have it collapse the day before school reopened.
The 55-year-old bridge, which is the main means of entrance into the community that is home to approximately 700 residents, collapsed under the weight of a truck on Sunday afternoon. “Long now we keep saying that this bridge is going to collapse and look what happen, the day before children supposed to turn out to school it gone and break,” a resident said.
Stabroek News was told that there are big trucks travelling on the bridge daily and this
