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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Fletcher Road residents blame bad roads for man’s death

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1175 days ago
20211128

One day af­ter a res­i­dent of La Hor­quet­ta Tal­paro died of a heart at­tack be­cause an am­bu­lance re­port­ed­ly could not get to him on time due to poor road con­di­tions, scores of res­i­dents came out in their num­bers yes­ter­day morn­ing call­ing for the road­ways to be re­paired ur­gent­ly.

The res­i­dents of Fletch­er’s Road, Todd’s Road protest­ed the hor­ri­ble con­di­tion of their road in­fra­struc­ture and land­slips in the area.

La Hor­quet­ta Tal­paro Peo­ple’s Rev­o­lu­tion move­ment Chair­man Coun­cil­lor Ryan Ram­per­sad led Sun­day morn­ing’s ac­tion to­geth­er with Ca­roni East MP Dr Rishi Seecher­an and Las Lo­mas/San Rafael Coun­cil­lor Bal­mati Gosyne.

Guardian Me­dia was told that a res­i­dent iden­ti­fied as Balchan Balka­ran suf­fered a mas­sive heart at­tack.

The res­i­dents claimed the am­bu­lance could not get across a land­slip to get to Balka­ran, who even­tu­al­ly passed away.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, Ram­per­sad said there are five land­slips in the area that are in need of ur­gent re­pair.

“The Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion is re­spon­si­ble for that road how­ev­er we have ab­solute­ly no fund­ing to car­ry out the mag­ni­tude of works re­quired in that area there,” Ram­per­sad said.

“I have vis­it­ed the area with MP Fos­ter Cum­mings one year ago to­geth­er with en­gi­neers from var­i­ous in­fra­struc­tur­al agen­cies.

“They all looked at it they even took mea­sure­ments and I un­der­stand that es­ti­mates would have been pre­pared for one or two of those land­slips and we are in­to a new fi­nan­cial year and noth­ing is be­ing said to the peo­ple, noth­ing is be­ing promised to the peo­ple if these land­slips are go­ing to be fixed.

“Every­one is in lim­bo no one knows where we are stand­ing and we want to know what is hap­pen­ing. We are call­ing on cen­tral Gov­ern­ment agen­cies that are suf­fi­cient­ly re­sourced to please come in ur­gent­ly and get the in­fra­struc­tur­al re­pairs done be­cause the re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion can­not un­der­take this type of work,” he added.

Ef­forts to reach the Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan proved fu­tile.


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