Repairs to roads in Cummings Lodge and Agricola are set to begin next week and the Ministry of Public Works and the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be providing temporary employment to jobless persons in those areas.
Acting Town Clerk Yonette Pluck-Cort made this announcement at a press briefing hosted at City Hall on Wednesday. According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release the works will be done now that government has released an additional $10M from the promised $120M it agreed to provide the M&CC to do enhancement works in the city. “It is intended that we commence work in Cummings Lodge and Agricola from the 27th of this month (July). The engineers have already presented a programme for the works that are going to be done, and work is expected to commence on schedule in those areas,” Pluck-Cort said. She said too works had been completed in Cummingsburg and Tucville however the M&CC’s maintenance crew will remain in the areas “to maintain the level that the municipality considers desirable.”
GINA said the ministry has also started works in Tucville. Upgrading and overlaying has already been done on Eden Street between Jackson and Perry streets. Other works set to be carried out in the city are the maintenance of parapets and minor drainage works.
According to the Town Clerk the major drainage works around the city will be done with the help of the municipality, while the road works that have been identified would be done in collaboration the ministry which will be supplying the materials. GINA said engineers from the ministry and M&CC will be visiting Agricola, Cummings Lodge and Turkeyen to solicit unemployed persons for temporary employment while the works are being carried out.
