BLACK RIVER:
COUNCILLORS OF the St. Elizabeth Parish Council want to know the contractor responsible for the installation of new street lights in the parish. Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Council in the meeting room last Thursday, Councillor for the Lacovia Division, Broderick Wright, said that only six of the 20 street lights he had requested were installed in his area. He added that no one contacted him prior to the installation of those lights and, as a result, some of the districts were still without lights.
"I would like the Council to conduct an investigation into the progress of the installation of the street lights across the parish, to determine where the contractor followed instructions" Councillor Wright said.
Councillor for the Black River Division, Phylis Clarke, told the meeting that not all the street lights installed in her division were working. In the Mountainside division, Councillor Anthony Montaque said he was having similar problems.
Other matters coming out of the meeting, Councillors on both sides of the political divide lashed out against the National Works Agency (NWA). They said the agency has been paying little, or no attention to the many roads which were damaged following the recent heavy rains in the parish.
The Councillors also noted that funds allocated to do repairs to the roads damaged during the May/June rains and later by Tropical Storm Lilli should be sent directly to the Parish Council, instead of the NWA.
Councillor for the Balaclava Division, Rodney Barnes, said that the NWA's office in Black River was not serving its purpose, as it had no equipment to do anything in the parish.
