{"id":20923,"date":"2022-02-24T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=20923"},"modified":"2022-02-24T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:47:23","slug":"no-work-on-deeside-roadway-before-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/no-work-on-deeside-roadway-before-march\/","title":{"rendered":"No work on Deeside roadway before March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamaica<\/p>\n

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DESPITE more than $200 million being earmarked to fix the three miles of road between Wakefield and Deeside in Trelawny, residents will have to wait at least another two months for work to begin.<\/p>\n

Last September, Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Works Everald Warmington toured the area and announced that $218 million had been set aside to repair the three miles of road. But to date, nothing has been done.<\/p>\n

Following Warmington\u2019s announcement, Member of Parliament for Northern Trelawny Tova Hamilton, in her maiden presentation to the House of Representatives, rattled off a number of road projects that would have ended \u201cyears of nothingness\u201d, noting that \u201croads are the arteries through which an economy pulses. It is vital to any development agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, in an interview with\u00a0The Gleaner<\/b>\u00a0on Wednesday, Stephen Shaw, communications manager of the National Works Agency, said based on procedure, no road repairs would be taking place anytime soon.<\/p>\n

No work will begin<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cAny work of that magnitude has three stages to pass through. There is a tender evaluation, public procurement commission and Cabinet approval. Until all three are completed, no work will begin,\u201d Shaw said.<\/p>\n

However, he expressed optimism that after the Budget is read in March, some work will begin.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, residents have described the roadway as among the most neglected in the parish and said it has caused them to be spending excessively on car parts.<\/p>\n

Sharnette Eccleston, a resident of Deeside, who is also a recording artiste, labelled the road as \u201cdisgraceful\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe road is most disgraceful. A journey that should take maximum 10 minutes is taking a half an hour. If you leave your home and forget anything, you don\u2019t turn back. You don\u2019t want to drive into the many deep potholes,\u201d said Eccleston, finding it difficult to hide her frustration<\/p>\n

Another Deeside resident, Roger Winter, a transport operator, bemoaned the negative impact that the condition of the roadway is having on his capacity to earn, as he constantly has to be spending money on replacing motor vehicle parts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hardly make any money. I ply the Falmouth to Deeside route. I make fewer trips per day and there is constant damage to my front end,\u201d related the 12-year veteran operator.<\/p>\n

Winter, whose route takes him through Wakefield, compared his experience to that of a friend and fellow public passenger vehicle operator, who operates a different route.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe bought the same type of vehicle on the same day. He runs the Duncans to Falmouth route,\u201d shared Winter. \u201cWhen I had gone through three sets of front-end parts, he had not changed one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jamaica \u00a0 DESPITE more than $200 million being earmarked to fix the three miles of road between Wakefield and Deeside in Trelawny, residents will have to wait at least another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":17613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[250],"tags":[190,124],"class_list":["post-20923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-construction","tag-jamaica"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-max-andrey-1197095-scaled-e1645732029934.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-5rt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36657,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/hamilton-appeals-for-patience-with-road-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":20923,"position":0},"title":"Hamilton appeals for patience with road projects","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"October 10, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Jamaica Trelawny Northern MP says procurement process stalling rehabilitative works TOVA HAMILTON, member of parliament for Trelawny Northern, is appealing for her constituents\u2019 patience as she battles with the lengthy procurement process to address deteriorated roadways in her constituency. 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