Shas­tri Boodan

The Gran Cou­va Main Road con­tin­ues to col­lapse, forc­ing res­i­dents to take a de­tour through Cameron Road which can­not ac­com­mo­date heavy ve­hi­cles.

How­ev­er, res­i­dents com­plained that truck dri­vers ig­nore the three-tonne lim­it sign and ve­hi­cles as heavy as ce­ment mix­ers reg­u­lar­ly use the road be­cause there is no al­ter­nate route.

Ca­roni Cen­tral MP Arnold Ram, who claimed the au­thor­i­ties are not se­ri­ous about do­ing any­thing about the sit­u­a­tion, told Guardian Me­dia: “They have ma­ma-guyed the peo­ple with a vis­it from the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port. It falls un­der their purview but all they are con­cerned about is fix­ing oth­er ar­eas, save and ex­cept those that lie with­in op­po­si­tion con­stituen­cies. If it was any oth­er area that was PNM con­trolled it would have been done al­ready.”

Ram said res­i­dents are wor­ried that Cameron Road may start to show some slip­page.

“Very soon, that area will col­lapse as well,” he warned.

He said small busi­ness­es and the co­coa plan­ta­tions in the area are be­ing ad­verse­ly af­fect­ed.

He added that WASA needs to fix bro­ken wa­ter mains in the area as there is no al­ter­na­tive route.

Among the res­i­dents af­fect­ed by the col­laps­ing road­way is fam­i­ly of four that had to va­cate their home which is lo­cat­ed near a land­slide.