Kara Kara toll point remains closed

By Jeff Trotman

 

Contrary to the announcement  by the leadership of the Linden IMC that the Kara Kara toll point would be opened on October 28th in defiance of an order by Local Government Minis-ter, Norman Whittaker, the facility remains closed and by last Friday the municipality’s officials seemed unsure of the way forward.

The IMC had been adamant that the booth would be reopened to provide revenue to enable the council to pay workers the minimum wage introduced in the middle of this year. However, the booth remains closed and it has since been vandalized.

“They start vandalizing the place,” the Linden IMC Vice Chairman, Eric Harry bemoaned on Friday. “Imagine they’ve removed