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Jul 19, 2014 News
– laments deplorable roads
Region Eight Chairman, Mark Crawford on Thursday, told the media that the Government has shown that it has no respect
for the residents of Mahdia. He said this as he lamented the deplorable state of roads in that Region.
More specifically, Crawford said that residents of Mahdia, the ‘capital’ of Region Eight, are fed-up with the state of the roads in their community. Persons accessing the main services at Mahdia are forced to navigate through numerous potholes to reach their destination.
Crawford said that the access roads to the Post Office, Police Station, Guyana Geology and Mines Commission office and the Hospital are all in a deplorable state.
He noted that the Regional Democratic Council under the Alliance For Change leadership, had made submissions in the 2014 Budget for money to repair the inner Mahdia roads. “However, the Finance Ministry refused to include allocations for these roads in the National Budget for 2014. Instead, what the Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker has done is to advise that miners should be asked to repair these roads,” said Crawford.
He said that this is a slap in the face, not only to the RDC but to all residents and other persons who visit or have to access services at Mahdia.
Crawford told the media that “The Minister and the Government he serves are continuously asking miners to increase gold production and declaration as they recognise that gold is now the backbone of their country’s economy. But, while the Government is willing to collect the revenues earned from gold, they are unwilling to spend some of that same revenue to fix the roads in Mahdia, the central hub for gold mining in Region Eight.”
On this basis, Crawford questioned why the Minister has not requested other RDC’s to have farmers or sugar workers assist in repairing roads that are badly damaged.
He said “To put it in local context, this is eye-pass to the max!”
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