Amid a stream of road deaths President David Granger yesterday plugged a three-prong plan to curb the scourge and his Public Infrastructure Minister noted that the burgeoning number of vehicles with little or no increase in road capacity was a critical factor.
Granger was at the time delivering the feature address at the official launch of Road Safety Month 2015 at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre (ACCC), Liliendaal, a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency said. A key part of the three-point plan focuses on the enhancement of infrastructure around the country. Granger said that Guyana has public roads, not highways and this means that most of the roads are situated in heavily populated areas. He argued that encumbrances such as shipping containers, roadside vendors’ stands,
