Re­pair work will be­gin on Wel­come Road, Cunu­pia from to­day.

The Coun­cil­lor for Long­denville/Tal­paro Ryan Ram­per­sad says that two hous­ing de­vel­op­ers, who res­i­dents are par­tial­ly blam­ing for the de­plorable con­di­tion of Wel­come Road Cunu­pia, will con­tribute ma­te­r­i­al to re­pair part of the road.

Ram­per­sad said this pledge was made dur­ing a com­mu­ni­ty meet­ing at Wel­come Road, North held on Tues­day evening.

“The re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion (of) Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro, I will be mak­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tion to get the nec­es­sary equip­ment which is back­hoe, trucks, rollers, and man­pow­er to do some tem­po­rary patch­ing,” he said.

Ram­per­sad said this should take place this week. He said one of the de­vel­op­ers who had pipes in­stalled by the Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) months ago but did not repave the road­way, will en­sure it’s done in Jan­u­ary 2025.

“The de­vel­op­er has pledged to go be­yond his de­mar­cat­ed area and if there are oth­er pot­holes along the road they will al­so do some patch­ing, this is for a sec­tion of the Wel­come Road North, not the en­tire road that is out­stand­ing,” he ex­plained.

Ac­cord­ing to Ram­per­sad, the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC) does not have suf­fi­cient fund­ing to do that mag­ni­tude of work.

“In fact, for this fi­nan­cial year the CT­TRC has no mon­ey ab­solute­ly none to do road paving or box drains in this new fi­nan­cial year 2024/2025,” he stat­ed.

Ram­per­sad said he and Ca­roni East MP Dr Rishad Seecher­an will con­tin­ue lob­by­ing for the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment to as­sist with the road’s re­pairs.

“We are seek­ing the as­sis­tance of oth­er cen­tral Gov­ern­ment agen­cies such as Pro­gramme for Up­grad­ing Roads Ef­fi­cien­cy Unit (PURE) and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (RDC) and those oth­er agen­cies that are well re­sourced,” he said.

On Tues­day res­i­dents told Guardian Me­dia that they felt ne­glect­ed by Gov­ern­ment be­cause their calls for the road to be fixed have been ig­nored.

Last month, they staged a fiery protest to com­plain about the same is­sue. They ex­plained they’ve been deal­ing with the de­plorable road con­di­tions for more than a decade and not just when the de­vel­op­ers be­gan con­struc­tion of homes ap­prox­i­mate­ly two years ago.