Dear Editor,
I was born at Mud Dam, Sophia, seventy-two years ago and can barely remember my grandmother who was an indentured immigrant. Mud Dam, Sophia, at that time until the sixties comprised eleven houses, a dairy owned by Bookers, a tannery, a manager’s house and a pig pen. Other than that, north, south and east of Mud Dam were swamplands, rice fields, farmlands and cane fields. On the west of Mud Dam, now New Haven, were farmland and rice fields, which included the whole of Prashad Nagar and Lamaha Gardens.
Mud Dam, Sophia was transformed into an all-weather road sometime in 2013 after several letters to the press and the previous government from 2008 onwards, but requests for a bridge connecting the New Haven and Mud Dam public roads never materialized.
The current bridge is in a dilapidated state, and is inundated in times of heavy rainfall. It was built over twenty-five years ago by myself and a lumber dealer.
Because of the all-weather road there is an increasing flow of traffic from north to south Sophia.
I recently read about the initiatives taken by the current government in the Sophia area where communities are being linked through bridges, so I would like to highlight our need for a proper bridge, since, as aforementioned, we were the first inhabitants of Mud Dam, Sophia, spanning eight decades of occupation.
Yours faithfully,
D Sookdeo
