Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, Jear­lean John, along with her team from the Min­istry, joined Chair­man Ken­wyn Phillip and coun­cil mem­bers of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion for a se­ries of site vis­its across the Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and To­co/San­gre Grande con­stituen­cies on Wednes­day.

The vis­it be­gan at the Min­istry of Works, Guaico, San­gre Grande, at 6 am. Lo­ca­tions vis­it­ed in­clud­ed Guaico/Tamana, Bon Air Road, Cu­mu­to, Ga­jad­har Road, San­gre Chiq­ui­to, Coryal, and Plum Road.

The min­istry said these vis­its fo­cused on ad­dress­ing some of the re­gion’s most ur­gent in­fra­struc­ture chal­lenges — in­clud­ing land­slides, in­ad­e­quate drainage sys­tems, and de­te­ri­o­rat­ing road­ways.

Min­is­ter John en­gaged di­rect­ly with lo­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives and res­i­dents, lis­ten­ing to and dis­cussing ac­tion­able plans to de­liv­er sus­tain­able im­prove­ments and re­lief to af­fect­ed com­mu­ni­ties.

Lo­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives and res­i­dents said the Min­is­ter John’s hands-on ap­proach and ded­i­ca­tion to peo­ple-cen­tred de­vel­op­ment con­tin­ue to set the stan­dard as Gov­ern­ment works to build a safer, stronger, and more re­silient To­co/San­gre Grande and Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la.

Fol­low­ing the vis­its, Min­is­ter John pro­ceed­ed to the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, where she lis­tened to con­cerns raised by Chair­man Ken­wyn Phillip and coun­cil­lors.

Min­is­ter John and Julio Jag­ger­nauth, En­gi­neer at the Min­istry of Works, re­spond­ed to the is­sues pre­sent­ed by the coun­cil­lors.