IT has been two years since the nearly 100-year-old bridge in Avocat, Fyzabad, crumbled into the Godineau River, separating a small agricultural village.

Families with young children moved out of their homes, saying it had become too risky to get across the river—first on a pirogue and then a wooden footpath.

Resident Junior Sookdeo wrote to the authorities in May, detailing the inconveniences and hardship residents of St John’s Branch Road have endured since the bridge collapsed in July 2024.