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Cleaning Watercourse in Brickfield Village
Matilda Recreation Ground, Princes Town
Installation of lights and Jogging Track at, Matilda Recreation Ground
Temple Street- Princes Town
Road Rehabilitation and Box Drain
Fairfield Rd off Perry Young, Princes Town
Road Rehabilitation and Box Drain
Brothers Road Recreation Ground
Construction of Jogging Track
Ramnarine Trace Princes Town
Paving of Ramnarine Trace
Unveiling of The Penal Dial
Upper Corosal Home Work Centre
Updated over a year ago
The Upper Corosal Home Work and Activity centre has been built for the children and residents to replace a 65-year-old building which was on the verge of collapse.
Box Drain and Pavement, Penal Rock Road
Restoration of Bank Village Community Centre
Sancho Branch Road, New Grant, Princes Town
Corosal Road, Whiteland
Repaved Road and Drainage at Corosal, Whiteland
Poor roads, broken bridges...
BY RADHICA SOOKRAJ
Gasparillo farmers have been forced to abandon hundreds of acres of prime agricultural lands because poor roads and broken bridges have left them unable to access their fields.
And in desperation, the farmers have turned to Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj for help.
During a tour of the area Thursday, farmer Ralph Sawh pointed out undulating fields of produce, located off bumpy pothole-ridden tracks. Sawh said despite the poor infrastructure, farmers have been struggling to grow fields of corn, peas, tomatoes, sweet peppers, pimentos, hot peppers, melongene, bodi, cabbages and patchoi.
He said the farmers of Lightbourne Village, located off Bonne Aventure Road, Gasparillo, have been producing 60 per cent of the nation’s crops.
However, Sawn said many farmers have now begun turning away from the land.
“We have over 300 farmers cultivating land at Gasparillo over the past 50 years, but now we have a little more than 200,” Sawh said. Pointing to a rotted wooden bridge at Samlalsingh Trace, he said farmers were unable to get tractors to their fields.
He said areas including Samlalsingh Trace, Baboolal Trace, Dowtal Trace, Ramroop Trace, and Harnanan Road were impassable because of broken bridges and poor roads.
“Many times people have to carry out their produce on their backs. This is tiring and takes a long time,” Sawh said. He explained the Sugar Industry Team (SIT), set up by the Sugar Manufacturing Company Ltd (SMCL) fixed three bridges last year, but more than five others were in dire need of repairs. The roads leading to the fields were riddled with potholes, while rotted planks hung limply over the river.
Indira Persad of Samlalsingh Trace said taxis no longer work in the Lightbourne community. She said each morning, regardless of the weather, she has to walk for a mile to get her children over the “dangerous bridge” at Samlalsingh Trace.
Farmer Krishna Boodram said some farmers have given up on agriculture. “We catching hell to get people to work on the fields because people don’t want to work here anymore. It is difficult to cross the bridge with the crops. People suffering and no body seems to hear our plight.”
Sorting through mounds of tomatoes, Boodram said much of the produce was sold at local markets and exported to various parts of the Caribbean. “We contribute to bringing in revenue for this country, but we cannot get proper infrastructure,” Boodram said.
He added that because of the difficulties of labour and access to fields, many farmers have stopped cultivating the land. Meanwhile, other farmers lamented the high cost of fertilisers and chemicals. The farmers called on Government to provide subsidies and loans as part of a new agricultural development programme.
http://legacy.guardian.co.tt/archives/2 ... news5.html
Lightborne Road, Gasparillo
Repaved & Drainage
Repair and Rehabilitation, Caratal Road, Gasparillo
Repair and Rehabilitation of Roads and Drainage, Caratal Road #1&2, Gasparillo
Newly paved roads in Westbury Park, Gasparillo.
WASA’s Largest Ductile Pipeline Purchase
Function held by WASA to commemorate their largest ever purchase of dictile pipelines. 190 miles of pipeline were purchases from Chinese company, Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Company Limited, at a cost of $260 million.
UML, try and post completed work photos only of the government's "achievements".Is UML one of those paid P.P bloggers?
Yes he is.
Redman wrote:Is UML one of those paid P.P bloggers?
Yes he is.
And in typical UNC fashion they overpaying....BIG time.
Rory Phoulorie wrote:The OSH Agency needs to visit these construction sites and shut them down for the amount of health and safety violations. The government doesn't care about the people constructing their "achievements"?
http://m.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-05-07 ... halt-paverOperator crushed by asphalt paver
Harridath Deolatsingh worked long, hard hours so that he could finish his family home, but his plans came to a tragic end on Tuesday when he was crushed by the asphalt paver he was operating. Deolatsingh, 43, an operator with DJ Contractors of Abdool Village, Penal, was on a Ministry of Works and Infrastructure road paving project at Jewel Drive, Palmiste.
A police report stated that around 5 pm, he was driving the machine up a hill when it appeared that the gear lever stuck, causing it to reverse uncontrollably into a resident’s driveway. He fell out the paver, which then rolled over his body before stopping in a drain. Yesterday, officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Authority were on site as an investigation had been started.
Tears flowed at Deolatsingh’s home yesterday where his mother Polly struggled to believe that her only son was gone. His three-year-old son Jeevan played with other relatives, too young to understand. His wife, Radhica Singh, said she last saw her husband at 7 am when he dropped her off at work. She said when she called him around 3 pm, he told her that he could not take her home because he was working. When she called again to find out when he would be home, it was then she learned of the accident.
“When I called him after 5 (pm), his partner answered the phone and said ‘Japs’ got in an accident, he was under the spreader and an ambulance was on the way. I said I would meet them at the hospital, but when I reached there, a police officer hugged me and told me, ‘these things happened.’ I did not even know that he had died,” Singh said.
She said her husband had started working with the contractor only two months ago and was experienced in operating equipment. While Deolatsingh’s employers have offered to cover his funeral expenses, Singh said she did not know if she would be able to finish the house, which was still under construction. She said they had moved into the house just a year ago.
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