President Irfaan Ali on Saturday expressed his disappointment with the pace at which the East Bank Berbice main access road is being done by the Ministry of Public Works, as according to him despite having the finances and dry weather, the engineers have been going slow.
In December 2021, Ali had released a further $100 million for work on the Upper East Bank Berbice main access road, which at that time had been in a deplorable state for a number of years. Speaking to residents at a community meeting in Mara, Ali had said that the $100 million, which would be made available immediately, would cover about six kilometres of the road.
On Saturday, he visited the community along with Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill, who reminded residents that one of the commitments during President’s Ali visit two years ago was that the road would be paved from the back going forward (that is from Mara heading outwards). Edghill revealed that so far the first kilometre had been completed. He said that they had promised to do one kilometre per year.
