St Catherine South West deserve better roads – Dr Peter Phillips

That’s the view expressed yesterday by opposition leader and president of the People’s National Party (PNP) Dr Peter Phillips in an addressed to party faithfuls in Old Harbour.

While lamenting the growing traffic congestion of the town and a lack of adequate facility for transport operators and vendors, Dr Phillips said: The road situation in the constituency, from all the things that all what the people said, is in a bad condition especially when you consider that the member of parliament for this constituency is the minister of works.”

Everald Warmington, who has been the people’s elected representative in St Catherine South West since 2002, is the current  state minister in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) with responsibility for works.

There has been a noticeably increase in road works in the constituency in the last three years, opposition candidate Dr Kurt Waul, shares the same view of his party leader.

“I do welcome the repair of roads on our major thoroughfares, however, what is lacking is the timely and proper maintenance of these roads especially along the stretch from Stewart’s Hardware to Myton Gully bridge which has some dangerously deep potholes and also in front of the Old Harbour High School,” said Dr Waul, the PNP’s candidate who will challenge Warmington at the next general elections constitutionally due in 2021.

“There are also several open manholes on the sidewalks throughout the town. Roads in many old housing developments like the Nightingale groves farming community are nonexistent even though these residents pay significant property taxes. Much work is left to be done,” Dr Waul noted.

The PNP president, who survived a narrow internal presidential election victory over Peter Bunting, was on a road tour of St Catherine with stops in Portmore, Spanish Town and Old Harbour.