Cunupia residents get road relief as Ameen warns of funding shortfall

While res­i­dents of Wel­come Road, Cunu­pia, can fi­nal­ly en­joy a smooth dri­ve to and from their homes af­ter years of dust and pot­holes, the min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for road re­pairs says oth­er com­mu­ni­ties will have to be pa­tient.

“We do not have, the coun­try does not have, the mon­ey to do the amount of work that we want,” Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen said yes­ter­day, while tour­ing 500 me­tres of new­ly paved road with Ca­roni East MP Dr Rishad Seecher­an and Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Ryan Ram­per­sad.

Ameen said every com­plet­ed road prompts oth­er com­mu­ni­ties to ask when their turn will come.