I must com­mend the Gov­ern­ment, MP Jack Warn­er, the Min­is­ter of Works, the may­or of Cha- gua­nas and the work­ers of the bor­ough cor­po­ra­tion for their for­ward think­ing in mak­ing Ram­saran Road in Ch­agua­nas in­to a boule­vard. How­ev­er, I am sur­prised that the build­ing con­trac­tor is still us­ing back­ward tech­nol­o­gy in an ur­ban area. When you con­sid­er the in­con­ve­nience in terms of time to busi­ness­es sit­u­at­ed along that road and to dai­ly traf­fic by us­ing the old method of build­ing the pave­ment drain with con­crete blocks, steel, ce­ment and man­u­al labour, this boule­vard project may take up to three years giv­en our weath­er con­di­tions.

This old method of build­ing pave­ment drains is more ap­pro­pri­ate to rur­al ar­eas where there is less busi­ness ac­tiv­i­ty and less traf­fic on the road. Out of cu­rios­i­ty I did some re­search and found that a lo­cal com­pa­ny has pre­cast con­crete pave­ment drains which are fit­ted with con­crete theft-proof cov­ers that can be opened for clean­ing the drain. By us­ing this pre­cast drain on both sides of the boule­vard, the work could be com­plet­ed in three months as op­posed to three years. with less cost and less in­con­ve­nience to busi­ness places and road traf­fic. The Gov­ern­ment can save time and mon­ey and and avoid much in­con­ve­nience to cit­i­zens by us­ing pre­cast drains in all ur­ban and sub­ur­ban ar­eas through­out the coun­try. The old build­ing method should still be used in rur­al ar­eas where they need to cre­ate em­ploy­ment and in­con­ve­nience is not a big fac­tor.

Jeff Naipaul

Ch­agua­nas