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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Paray urges for petroleum-based binder to fix Mayaro-Manzanilla road

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Ralph Banwarie
738 days ago
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Vehicles drive on the Manzanilla Bypass Road at reduced speed because of the rough road.

Vehicles drive on the Manzanilla Bypass Road at reduced speed because of the rough road.

RALPH BAN­WARIE

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro, Rush­ton Paray, is call­ing on Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan to im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dress the ex­treme­ly poor con­di­tion of the Man­zanil­la by-pass road.

He is sug­gest­ing to Sinanan to ei­ther use a pe­tro­le­um-based binder to re­pair the se­vere­ly dam­aged Ma­yaro-Man­zanil­la by-pass road or pro­vide a clear ex­pla­na­tion for its re­fusal or in­abil­i­ty to do so.

Fur­ther­more, he says it is cru­cial for the min­istry to in­stall ad­e­quate light­ing and safe­ty mea­sures along the road to pre­vent se­ri­ous car ac­ci­dents and po­ten­tial fa­tal­i­ties.

Paray said the tem­po­rary by­pass road has be­come haz­ardous for mo­torists due to nu­mer­ous sinks and un­even sur­faces, and over­all dan­ger­ous con­di­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing the night.

He said a ve­hi­cle re­cent­ly over­turned off the road due to the ab­sence of re­flec­tive guides and in­ad­e­quate light­ing is some parts.

He be­lieves the ab­sence of a pe­tro­le­um-based binder on the road's sur­face has made it vul­ner­a­ble to con­tin­u­ous de­te­ri­o­ra­tion.

"The cur­rent state of this project is un­ac­cept­able and re­flects poor­ly on Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan, whose neg­li­gence puts the lives of cit­i­zens at risk. The min­is­ter must pri­or­i­tize the well-be­ing of those who uti­lize this thor­ough­fare and prompt­ly ad­dress these is­sues," Paray said.

Paray warns that fail­ure to take ac­tion will make the min­is­ter per­son­al­ly re­spon­si­ble for any ac­ci­dents, in­juries, or dam­ages suf­fered by dri­vers and com­muters.

Guardian Me­dia has reached out to the Min­is­ter and is await­ing a re­sponse.

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