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Mayaro residents are calling on authorities to repair the Mayaro/Guayaguayare Road.
Maxi driver along the route for the last 23 years, Sonny Ramsingh, yesterday estimated the last time the road received any major repairs was 20 years ago.
A resident and taxi driver known as “Chinee” said the deplorable condition of the road was taking a toll on their vehicles and wallets.
“As a Mayaro/Guayaguayare person, and the things coming out of here (for the country), I feel we could be in a better position than we in here right now,” he said.
Mayaro MP Rushton Paray said he made representations to Minister of Works and Transport Rohan Sinanan in Parliament over a month ago and was told there were no plans to rehabilitate the road.
Paray said residents were frustrated and although they have not protested yet, it was not off the table.
Compounding their frustration, he said, was the fact that the recently opened ten-kilometre temporary Bypass Road in Manzanilla is riddled with potholes and deteriorating just three months after it was opened.
“We’re just probably one inch away from misbehaviour. I am telling you, people in Mayaro, they are very law- abiding people,” he said.
Since the dry season began, the Ministry of Works and Transport has been on an aggressive road repair programme. Three weeks ago, Minister Sinanan said it had already completed 50 per cent of the projects in the first phase of the programme.
