SHAS­TRI BOODAN

Res­i­dents of Pep­per Vil­lage, Gran Cou­va, com­plained about the in­ad­e­quate wa­ter sup­ply to the area when they met Ca­roni Cen­tral MP Dr Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh on Sat­ur­day. They said they get pipe-borne wa­ter two or three times a week. They claim a reg­u­lar sup­ply is sent to a near­by up­scale hous­ing de­vel­op­ment in the area while they had to de­pend on rain­wa­ter and a spo­radic sup­ply from WASA.

The MP al­so got an ear­ful from res­i­dents about land­slips and bad roads. He promised to dis­cuss the wa­ter sit­u­a­tion with WASA of­fi­cials and spoke of plans to re­ha­bil­i­tate sev­er­al roads in the area and the com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre in three months' time. He said gov­ern­ment al­so plans to start the con­struc­tion of two ac­tiv­i­ty cen­tres at a cost of $2 mil­lion.

Ra­mad­hars­ingh, the Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment, said his min­istry has been giv­en the go-ahead to build out­reach cen­tres for rur­al com­mu­ni­ties in Ica­cos, Guayagua­yare and To­co where res­i­dents will have ac­cess to a range of gov­ern­ment ser­vices.