The multi-million-dollar construction on the Bartica-Potaro road from 1 Mile to 4 Miles has commenced and Regional Chairman of Region 7 Gordon Bradford has deemed the progress so far as satisfactory.
However, residents of the area remain wary of roadwork and have called the construction thus far as “patchwork”.
Micah Williams, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Bartica Minibus Association said that work thus far is unsatisfactory and not what had been proposed. “I am not pleased at all,” Williams said. “We recommended the resurfacing of the road and we jointly prepared a proposal on the type of work we expected but that is not what the ministry is doing.”
He went on to say, “Every day residents keep calling me to complain about the