Dear Editor,
AFTER writing several letters about the deplorable state of Agriculture Road, I am compelled to write this letter again.

About three weeks ago I saw the same project engineer, Anthony A. Haynes, sent by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to patch the bad holes I highlighted in my previous letter by pictures I took. I believe this engineer was sent back to complete his ”bogus work” he left unfinished since he started this work.

I was happy that he came back to patch the holes in this road. I noted with interest he started the work from in front of NAREI going to the front from back. The holes in front NAREI he patched properly. Then I noticed he just dug out the bad parts and throw in some crush and run and rolled it over and did not put bitumen for over 200 meters that now has two more holes already. What infuriates me was he worked a few days and left the work to go and fix two roads in Block 8– a road they called ”Jail Man Bridge.” He fixed those two roads but left about 600 metres with deep holes and left to return to Agriculture Road to patch more holes he left unfinished in the rains.

It’s mind-boggling that this Engineer will work in the rains and not on the hot days. The middle of the road that had a big hole that broke the road into pieces he tried to fix properly, but if you look at the bottom when it was dug out and what the throw in and rolled it over you will know it cannot last a year. He failed to level the twisted parts of the road and sleeve the corners of the road.

As I go out on the road he cut off about 600 metres of the road about four feet in width that has now become an accident zone when vehicles are coming from the opposite directions. He threw some red sand into it and gone; that is now a deep hole that can land a vehicle into the Mon Repos trench if you don’t know the road when driving. He left lots of holes on the edges of the road he did not cut off and filled up with crush and run and bitumen. The 600 metres of bad work he left incomplete in front and over 400 metres at the back is a next bad testimony of the bogus work this contractor is doing and he is paid by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to execute these deplorable road works all over Guyana.

In my firm opinion, this man need to be taken to court to refund the ministry their money for deplorable road works he has failed to complete. I am calling on the Minister of Public Infrastructure to send a team into Agriculture Road to examine the bogus road work that is executed by Anthony A. Haynes, their contract engineer who has collected the government money by false pretense. From the inception he started to patch roads here he left the work unfinished and went away. It was after I wrote about it he came back to say he patched about 1200 metres of holes that costs $59,031,149.What bothers me [is that] the ministry sent back this same man again to complete his work who is a total failure and he failed again to patch the holes again by leaving this work unfinished. I now wonder how many more millions he was paid for a few half-day work. He left over 600 metres of holes in a street he was fixing in block 8.

If government is paying this bogus contractor millions to execute road works, he is getting away from with his ‘lazy man workers’ then something ought to be done with this man. He needs to refund the ministry of public infrastructure their money and be fired or those giving him contracts need to be audited by the Auditor General’s Office and fired.

I am calling on the Hon. Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, to come into Agriculture Road to see the bogus work this contractor has done that is incomplete and gone with their money in his pockets. This is not good for the development of our country. I hope those in authority will address this issue in Agriculture Road I have raised here or the President will address it.

Regards,
Rev. Gideon Cecil