Clay­ton Clarke

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Gov­ern­ment Sen­a­tor Lau­rence His­lop yes­ter­day blamed the Far­ley Au­gus­tine-led To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) for de­te­ri­o­rat­ing roads across To­ba­go.

At a news con­fer­ence host­ed by the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil, His­lop said road up­grades were among the promis­es made by the then Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) dur­ing its cam­paign in the 2021 THA elec­tions. How­ev­er, he claimed, the in­cum­bents have not been ho­n­our­ing their words.

“This is the worst I have seen our road in­fra­struc­ture from as far back as I can re­mem­ber. We have been very proud of our road net­work over the years, but with­in the last 20 months we have fac­ing a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road con­di­tion in To­ba­go,” he said.

“We were promised by this ad­min­is­tra­tion that there will be a sig­nif­i­cant thrust to­wards keep­ing our road net­work, or even im­prov­ing it and there was boast of a smart to app to iden­ti­fy where the pot­holes were and you would have been able as a cit­i­zen to re­port a pot­hole.”

The sen­a­tor, who is from Ma­son Hall, said To­bag­o­ni­ans want so­lu­tions not ex­cus­es. “Since this ad­min­is­tra­tion has come in­to pow­er all we have been re­ceiv­ing, as it re­lates to de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road con­di­tions, are promis­es,” he said.

His­lop iden­ti­fied All-Field Crown Trace as one of the ar­eas in se­ri­ous need of re­pair. He ap­pealed to the au­thor­i­ties to out­line plans to bring re­lief to the af­fect­ed res­i­dents.