PM: $100 Million in Road Works to Begin Soon – ‘We’ll Build Roads Like We Don’t Have No Sense’
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced that his government is preparing to roll out EC$100 million in road development projects across Antigua and Barbuda, promising an aggressive and widespread push to improve community roads.
Speaking at a political rally on Friday night, the Prime Minister used vivid language to convey the scale of the effort. “We’re going to build roads like we don’t have no sense,” he said to cheers from supporters.
The announcement comes as the government shifts focus from major highways to the repair and rehabilitation of secondary and community roads, which residents across the island have long demanded.
According to Mr Browne, nearly all major roads in the country have already been rehabilitated, with the remaining attention now turning to local roads that connect neighbourhoods and support daily commuting.
He said the new phase of road works will be supported by an EC$100 million funding injection expected to be drawn down over the next year.
“We’ve already tackled most of the main arteries,” he said. “Now it’s time to fix the roads in your communities, the ones you drive on every day.”
The Prime Minister framed the investment as part of the broader mission to raise living standards and modernise national infrastructure. The roadworks plan follows recent investments in water production, housing, education, and healthcare.
“This is about improving quality of life,” Mr Browne said. “Whether it’s better roads, more reliable water, or affordable homes—we’re investing directly in the people.”
He also pointed to past shortcomings under previous administrations, saying his government inherited neglected infrastructure but had steadily turned things around over the past decade.
While the government has delivered several high-profile infrastructure projects in recent years, complaints persist in some areas over road conditions, particularly in rural and residential zones. The upcoming works are likely to be closely watched by both the public and opposition.
Details on which communities will benefit first from the new road works programme have not yet been disclosed.
Mr Browne ended his remarks with a renewed commitment to national development. “We’re going to pave, patch, and pour until every village and every community gets the roads they deserve.”
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Enough of your bullshit. We want accountability first. Have 500 houses been built in 3000, damn I forgot it’s 500 days? Crazy is as crazy does. It’s time to demit office.
NEARLY ALL MAJOR ROADS???
IS ALL SAINTS ROAD A MAJOR, SECONDARY ROAD OR THE BUSIEST ROAD ON THE ISLAND?????
IT IS THE WORST ROAD ON ISLAND🤦🏾♂️
I wish we could trust this government to use the money for the roads. 😒
Well I am happy to hear this from you sir. Please remember to take care of Oliver’s Development community roads. We are driving on mud, pure mud.
May God bless you and your government in these trying times 💯
Mr PM, one might argue that we are ALREADY “building roads like we have no sense”. Building a road, digging it up a few weeks later, not installing proper drainage etc. Perhaps what we need to do is to “BUILD ROADS LIKE WE HAve SENSE”.
All saints road is the worse road in the country. The road that run from Herberts to potters is horrible also. All saints road from harbor to st John’s need to be thrown in the garbage dump, and a brand new road need to be built. All saints road, All saints road, All saints road. We need a road from English Harbor to St John’s.
Oh and please please please build the road like you all HAVE SENSE.
The headline is correct; they usually build roads like they have no sense. They build it and then dig it up 1 day after to lay pipes and build it in a way that slightest rain washes the roads away. PM Browne is completely correct, they build road like they have no sense ha ha ha ha.
I do not know about the building roads part.
What we all know is that your are correct with the other part, “like crazy”.
4000 days ago you promised en end to our water woes.
You party made numerous promises that have not been and will not be filfilled.
One of you elected parliamentarians told us that we would be stupid to expect the promises made on the hustling to be adhered to.
Well we are not believing this one.
Road repairs and new roads will run us into the tens of millions.
If you cannot pay monthly rent of a few thousand dollars how will you have our roads fixed?
Go try fool another person..
Then again you woll not be fooling even the laboRATs.
They cannot be fooled any more.
You cannot fool a fool.
@gaston : you are speaking the election magic words that road will be built, when you can’t even fulfill your promise that water unavailability will be a thing of the past, now you fail to do it purposely so you can maintain the water crisis and monetize the solution to the problem to make millions that you set up a shell company to front for you making monies all how off of Antiguans tax payers you and your family, and then your white colleagues in barbuda PLH makes billions off Barbuda lands with you probably making your cut. Black people must be empowered man! Slavery done over a hundred years it’s time to economically liberate the survivors of this atrocity greater than the halocast made up word for white validation as more qualified humans than black Africans , how damn racist they are. You Gaston is an opportunist raised in rappaport swiss bank where you embellished and celebrate all the great mafia’s you met during that time and their money looting schemes that you have implemented in Antigua government today, causing a state capture of all civil servant and police and judiciary that nothing function today with integrity. In the vissitude of time we will see the laws of physics, what goes up must come down. You will answer the Antiguan people one day .
Ha! Ha! Build road with no sense is already accomplished , and hadeed get paid for the black oil bitumen that is wasted in sugar cake patches. In the 60-70’s under the British the road maintenance crew use to light fire in the holes before pouring the tar into it so it can bond properly, this modern time there is small machines with propane tank use to heat the road so the patch can vulcanize, with all the engineers we have don’t tell me that are only there by job entitlement? Then there is no synergy between the utility company like Apua so they will come and dig up the road soon after as if it’s a game been played. APUA should get directional boring machine to place pipes without destroying the road, and the utilities have to aggregate staking sheet data to reduce Cost to government or tax payers, APUA is a real failure in this case. But it’s an anomaly because the DCA should have full control of planning.
Your “economic powerhouse” can’t pay it’s rent, but yet you expect people to believe that you will fix the roads?
The great sales man Gatson is at it again.. 😂. He’s pulling out all his bags of tricks and trying to sell Antigua a bag of hot air.. 😂
You just got to laugh with this guy..