Government continues to maintain the Amaila Falls Access Road while it mulls options for recovering the maintenance costs incurred yearly.
“We have to maintain the road because we paid for it and don’t want it to deteriorate,” Minister of Public Infrastructure (MPI) David Patterson told Stabroek News last week.
Further, he explained “At the moment we are trying to figure out cost recovery for it, what options are available. We are also going through several options, including having people pay to lease it and things like that, to go to or access their concession but we haven’t arrived at any decision on any of them as yet.”
Patterson’s predecessor Robeson Benn had said, shortly before leaving office,