Dr. Fenton Ferguson, minister of state in the Ministry of Transport and Works, has said that $500,000 has been allocated to undertake a drain cleaning and road patching programme in Four Paths, Clarendon.
"Instructions have been given as it relates to the cleaning of the drains in the Four Paths area, and I can assure you... that while we all hope to see the start of 2005, I can comfortably predict that the silt and debris that the drains are now caught up with, will not be there in 2005," he said.
Dr. Ferguson was addressing the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in the community last Thursday.
He said the official correspondence would have been done Friday, authorising the National Works Agency (NWA) to
commence the project.
In a JIS news interview, Charles Learmond, member of Parliament for the Clarendon Southwest constituency said that funds would be used to clean four major drains in the community, as well as to carry out minor road patching in the Four Paths square.
The work was scheduled to get underway yesterday and should last for approximately two weeks.
