Farmers of Wet Area in Belles will soon have a much improved farm road which will significantly impact their business.
500 feet of road is currently being constructed in the area at a cost of over $200,000 provided by the Ministry of Finance under its farm access allocation.
Parliamentary representative for the St. Joseph constituency Kelvar Darroux said on Thursday the project will have a significant impact on farmers and the hucksters who do business in that part of the island.
“This is a project that will impact significantly on the farmers in this community because here in Belles we have a number of farmers … as a matter of fact we have an active farmer’s group with over 70 plus farmers. In addition we have the hucksters who come for their produce here,” he said.
According to Darroux the road is being built of concrete, complete with proper drainage. “We realize that a number of roads in this country are damaged because the water sits on the road and so to avoid damage to this road proper drainage will be constructed while the road is being done. Additionally we will also see that the grass on the side of the road will be cut,” he pointed out.
He said farmers are looking forward to the completion of the project. “Farmers in the area are very excited about the project because it has been one that they have been waiting on for a very long time,” he stated.
Fourteen people are currently employed on the access road and it should be completed within the next two months, weather permitting.
This is really laughable. In the days of the Freedom Party and the UWP public works were doing roadwork regularly and GIS didn’t have to talk about these roadworks because it was a everyday activity. Now the DLP is doing 500 feet of road work and it is a bid deal. Ladies and gents this half a block of roadwork.
This is 0.09469 miles people for $200,000.00. DNO please tell us that you made a mistake..
Wait a minute! Someone made a mistake. 500feet of road cost $200,000. AWa! Am going to wait for a correction. This is less than half a mile.
So what must we do congratulate these blokes for a tenth of a mile of road.note it is going to cost $200 K to build 500 feet so a mile would cost $2.2 million. I cannot help but laugh at our government wbo offered $2 miilion dollars towards feeder road restoration and hand delivered $8 million to LIAT when and wash away $27 million on the White House. So we must now congratulate the smartest government ever for making such sound finacial decisions as we are about to spend $200 K on a a tenth of a mile of road.
Look carefully listen to someone of interest must be getting there bearing greased.
Wait! $200,000 for 500 feet of road? So $2.0m will give 5000 feet, which is 1666 yards. Isn’t a mile supposed to be 1760 yards? Well if this is the case $2.0m can’t even give us a mile of road? May sa mon ka tan la non Miss Mabel? Government dun serious about feeder road. Sa say starvation kayshoy man …
At 40,000 dollars per foot, I hope it’s made of gold.
after years of ignoring the argriculture industry in dca now u all find to start investing in it u all let it continue to die after UWP starve it u think the little u all doing now can do anythgin to revive the life blood thats was once flowing threw the country ?
I’m also exited about this project, i’m building my home in Belles!!!
Boss all those other feeder roads need to be fix. Thanks for this road but fix what already existed…whats wrong with all you brain?????
another tiny narrow road?