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Just weeks before voters head to the polls, a surge of road paving is underway across Trinidad—turning pothole-riddled streets into fresh strips of asphalt almost overnight.
After months and even years of neglect, and as motorists and pedestrians have grown frustrated with navigating around potholes and depressions, roads are finally being resurfaced. Millions of dollars are being spent.
The pungent scent of fresh asphalt clung to the air on St Joseph Road in Arima last week when the Sunday Guardian visited. For residents like Susan De Touche, who waited years for her street in the Eastern Borough to be fixed, the timing feels suspicious.
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