The roads, recently damaged by heavy rains in the Rupununi, have been fixed, Chairman of Region Nine, Clarindo Lucas says.
Everything is in place and vehicles are passing through, he added. Over a week ago, a section of the road at Mora Point along the Georgetown-Lethem trail had been washed away. Mora Point is about six miles away from the community of Aranaputa in the North Rupununi.
Before that, a section of the Rupununi trail at Mountain Point had been washed away as a result of heavy rains. Lucas had told this newspaper that about 20 feet of the road had been washed away by a short but heavy downpour.
This type of rainfall occurs at times and is dangerous, he had stated.
Residents, however, had complained about sub-standard work being done. Chris James, Toshao of Aishalton, located in the Deep South Rupununi, who had travelled along the road had told this newspaper that a portion of the road around the culvert had been washed away.
He had noted that the rest of the road was fine, except for that portion.
He stated that the contractor, after installing the culvert, had simply scooped up the soil from the sides, built it up and laid on some laterite to make the road. James had noted that residents had been using the same road and there was never any major problem before but now it is “just adding more misery to us”.