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Over 40% of Black Bush Road completed - Regional Chairman

September 14, 2011 | By KNews | Filed Under News
Source - Kaieteur News

Ongoing works on the Black Bush Polder road

Regional Chairman of Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha, has revealed that over 40 per cent of works have been completed on the 25-mile stretch of the Black Bush Polder Road on the Corentyne. He indicated that the contractor, BK International, has been working on different parts of the road. The Johanna area has been completed as well as part of Lesbeholden.

“They are working now from Lesbeholden to Mibikuri… doing the foundation work there. The part that they did not start any work yet is the Yakusari end, because they have to build some bridges there,” he revealed.

The project is costing the government some US$6.6M.

Mustapha also told Kaieteur News that some changes were made to the scope of works, in that the road will be widened more and bridges which were supposed to be built by wood will now be built using concrete.

The Chairman said that the farming area is already benefitting from the road works since there has been a significant rise in demands for land.

“The land in Black Bush… you have more demands for land. People who left their housing area —they called it the homestead— those lands are selling very expensive. People are coming back and taking up their property,” he noted.

Mustapha said that the famers will benefit from better farm-to-market roads. “You will have more transportation available. That will create a whole big thing for Black Bush Polder.” He revealed that he is in discussion with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) to improve communications in the area.

He also stated that the rent for rice fields along the roadside is now about $150,000-$200,000 per plot, up from $50,000- $75,000.

In August, Bridges Engineer, Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Sunil Ganesh, had announced that the road contract would be extended to April 2012 since other works would be added to the contract, including the installation of 80 pipe culverts. He stated that the project commenced in September 2010, and whilst the contractor was executing works, it was observed that beneath the existing roadway there were wooden culverts which the farmers utilized to drain their rice fields.

The wooden drainage systems were on the verge of collapse and would have also threatened the durability of the new road when completed, Ganesh had emphasized.

The scope of the project involves the rehabilitation of the existing roadway with an asphalted concrete surface. The stretch will be widened to six metres to facilitate two lanes of traffic.

The road in its current form cannot accommodate two lanes of traffic. If two vehicles were to traverse the road simultaneously one of them would have to use the shoulder of the road to give clearance to the other.

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The PPP could build the Taj Mahal at BBP and it will still remain the suicide capital of Guyana.

The RC is full of BS, people are still leaving for the 'road' and unless the PPP address the serious social issues there, not much will change.

Most people in Berbice feel Mustapha should get his head examined. The photo shows one piece of road being built, while the machines remain sitting for weeks with nothing happening and the people have to suffer using the [good] roads that was ripped up.

Dont only listen to Mustapha, ask the people at BBP directly and you will hear a different story.

Ask Mustapha why he keep changing his Wednesday meeting day at Mibricuri, when the people form a delegation to meet him.

Like Jagdeo, Mustapha is a failure in leadership.
Tola
sO WHO fault IS THAT. eDUCATION IS THE KEY FOR SUCCESS. dRINKING dHARU AND BEATING YUH WIFE AND pICKNEY IS YOUR bUSINESS.
quote:
Originally posted by Tola:
The PPP could build the Taj Mahal at BBP and it will still remain the suicide capital of Guyana.

The RC is full of BS, people are still leaving for the 'road' and unless the PPP address the serious social issues there, not much will change.

Most people in Berbice feel Mustapha should get his head examined. The photo shows one piece of road being built, while the machines remain sitting for weeks with nothing happening and the people have to suffer using the [good] roads that was ripped up.

Dont only listen to Mustapha, ask the people at BBP directly and you will hear a different story.

Ask Mustapha why he keep changing his Wednesday meeting day at Mibricuri, when the people form a delegation to meet him.

Like Jagdeo, Mustapha is a failure in leadership.
Nehru
quote:
Originally posted by Nehru:
sO WHO fault IS THAT. eDUCATION IS THE KEY FOR SUCCESS. dRINKING dHARU AND BEATING YUH WIFE AND pICKNEY IS YOUR bUSINESS.

quote:
Originally posted by Tola:
The PPP could build the Taj Mahal at BBP and it will still remain the suicide capital of Guyana.

The RC is full of BS, people are still leaving for the 'road' and unless the PPP address the serious social issues there, not much will change.

Most people in Berbice feel Mustapha should get his head examined. The photo shows one piece of road being built, while the machines remain sitting for weeks with nothing happening and the people have to suffer using the [good] roads that was ripped up.

Dont only listen to Mustapha, ask the people at BBP directly and you will hear a different story.

Ask Mustapha why he keep changing his Wednesday meeting day at Mibricuri, when the people form a delegation to meet him.

Like Jagdeo, Mustapha is a failure in leadership.


Nehru, you ever been to BBP?
Why dont you come and let us show you around?
Don't brand the people there by your lifestyle.
Tola
quote:
Regional Chairman of Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha, has revealed that over 40 per cent of works have been completed on the 25-mile stretch of the Black Bush Polder Road on the Corentyne.


That is enough to give a standing ovation to the PPP development success and for BBP. flag
FM
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Originally posted by Cobra:
quote:
Regional Chairman of Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha, has revealed that over 40 per cent of works have been completed on the 25-mile stretch of the Black Bush Polder Road on the Corentyne.


That is enough to give a standing ovation to the PPP development success and for BBP. flag

Indeed:

FM
quote:
Originally posted by Cobra:
quote:
Regional Chairman of Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha, has revealed that over 40 per cent of works have been completed on the 25-mile stretch of the Black Bush Polder Road on the Corentyne.


That is enough to give a standing ovation to the PPP development success and for BBP. flag



Mustapha is a PPP man and would sell anything to the public, why is the story not telling about the people at BBP, are they afraid to speak out from being black-listed ?
Mustapha like Jagdeo is very vindictive to those who speak against the PPP.

Why is the PPP always so backwards with what is most important for the people.

Are roads the most important thing, when there are four to five suicide attempt a month and a person[youth] dying almost every month from suicide. The highest suicide level in all of Guyana.
Tola
Mustapha is nothing like his excellency, his Excellency is merciful he is benificent.

This chap mustapha is a no good and an arrogant no good at that he is giving the PPP and our people here a bad name.
J

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