Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cou­va North Ravi Rati­ram is call­ing on the Works & Trans­port Min­is­ter, Ro­han Sinanan to have the de­bris and con­crete rub­ble at the base of the Roops­ingh Road Bridge ur­gent­ly cleared.

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the MP:

The con­crete base of the Roops­ingh Road Bridge has now en­tire­ly col­lapsed in­to the La Cue­sa riv­er and Cou­va North MP Rati­ram is call­ing on Works & Trans­port Min­is­ter, Ro­han Sinanan to have the de­bris and con­crete rub­ble at the base of the Bridge ur­gent­ly cleared.

Less than two weeks ago when the con­crete base of the Roops­ingh Road Bridge par­tial­ly col­lapsed, a works team from the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion set out to clear the rub­ble that fell in­to the riv­er be­neath the bridge.

As a con­se­quence of the heavy and con­tin­u­ous flow of wa­ter from the sig­nif­i­cant rain­fall over the past two (2) weeks, there is now a sub­stan­tial build-up of silt and de­bris un­der the bridge, im­ped­ing the reg­u­lar flow of wa­ter (see at­tached pic­tures).

Fol­low­ing a vis­it to the site to­day, MP Rati­ram notes that since the in­ci­dent on No­vem­ber 10th, the fall­en con­crete base is still lodged in the riverbed un­der the bridge since the Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion does not pos­sess the equip­ment to re­move such a huge ob­struc­tion.

The MP al­so says that the sit­u­a­tion was brought to the at­ten­tion of the Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter. On No­vem­ber 11th, 2022, a me­dia re­lease was is­sued by the Cou­va North MP, call­ing on Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter, Faris Al Rawi to pro­vide a per­ma­nent so­lu­tion. MP Rati­ram re­minds mo­torists that in the in­ter­im, on­ly ve­hi­cles un­der five tonnes (5T) should use the bridge and to ex­er­cise cau­tion when mak­ing their way across.