Rainfall in Antigua and Barbuda caused over $200 Million in damage to Road Infrastructure

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Works Minister Maria Browne

Throne Speech:On November 8th and 9th, 2020, more than 21 inches of rain fell on Antigua and Barbuda, flooding streets and highways, destroying bridges and conduits, and causing more than $200 million in damages to the nation’s road infrastructure.

My Government decided to fix the major highways first, and to move to community roads after.

Drivers can attest to the superior surface of the Factory Road Highway from the intersection of the Sir George Walter Highway, stretching past the Sir Viv Richards Stadium to the Village of Wilikies; to the smooth surface of the highway from Golden Grove to Old Road; and, the quality drive of two major rehabilitated highways—the Airport Road and the Friars Hill Road—with a grant from the British.

The major arteries in Antigua and also on Barbuda are excellent examples of road engineering.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. Don’t blame the rains. Blame the poorly designed, built and maintained infrastructure(s).
    Proper swailing matters!
    Proper drainage matters!
    Stop blaming the rain!
    Maria is out of her league!

  2. The paper-qualified engineers with no vision are to be blame…don’t know more than a seamstress who “navigates and cut cloth” according to people’s shapes. Shame of Dem Just a statistic on Government payroll! Fire all a Dem rh!

  3. When Politicians play technicians without a clue, and fail to listen to and empower the real technicians, we end up in a quandary as we are today with very poor infrastructure and some very wealthy individuals. #wheydimoneygone? #askAlibabaandassociates
    #askdisyriandem

  4. Hmmmm, let me think, 🤔 no contingency plans by Maria ‘Nepo Baby’ Browne and the ABLP government.

    WELL NO SURPRISE THERE THEN, WHAT EVER NEXT, MORE TAX RISES TO COVER THE RAIN DAMAGE?

  5. It just shows the quality of the roads they are billing the Treasury for. When most of the money is going into someone’s pocket and not in the roads, just a little rain and the roads done mash up.

  7. You can’t run the delivery of good governance services with nepotism and cronyism; and still be expected to get results that is not of the medoractic norm of appreciation from the governance elitist Buffoons, and cult syncopants with asperations of cushion jobs- without standards, and skill sets-that is not a throwback and, continuance of British Colonial mindsets, of the less deserved, and merely subjective resonance of inclusivity. Our infrastructure rehabilitation should not be dependent upon England’s largesee and compunction of empathy for their now hands-off embryonic sense of none compensation reparation, for the sustained tyranny wrought on Our lot, of marooned, abondon mentally enslaved sentinels called Antiguans/ Barbudans. Let there be a continuous Capital Fund establish for road development Islands wide and, a ten year St. John’s re-gentrification expenditure. (We can do this for ourselves) Yes! We can: if there were not so many Pigs, pigging-out at the People’s pig-trough with contempt: and the governance offering frivolous entertainment platitudes to satiate the guillible sense of the vapid Masses wishing for a happy day; instead of a happy life. Experience and qualifications in governance do matter. Is She or, He of such caliber? Please wake me up when this none vision (Coon and Buffoons) sellout show is over.

    • Correct @ Handit2me, getting a high profile job or position because of who you know and not the right qualifications is totally wrong and out of place when it comes to helping to run ANY country.

      Two people immediately come to mind. One is in charge of the Immigration Department, and the other is involved in housing; and in addition, the man running this beautiful country had STRONG links with the Bird family.

      AND PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED THAT THE COUNTRY IS IN A RIGHT FINANCIAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL MESS???

      Antiguans and Barbudans demand the right – degree educated – people in the right positions.

      Or get qualified advisors to sort all unna selves out!

      Then and only then will Antigua & Barbuda FULLY function.

      PRAYING DAILY FOR THIS TO HAPPEN 🙏🏽

  9. Whats certainly missing is the amount of insurance money being paid by the insurance company for this storm.

  11. That’s the best excuse they could come up with? What was the cause of the road damage before the rain? Sad that we had so much destructive rainfall and still struggling with water. This government makes no sense.

  12. The stretch a Rd from police ground to Pares that’s constantly under repairs?????? Look on the mess they created by Mount Joy that’s hampering Traffic as we speak . 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

  13. When you get the $200 million, how much you will spend on the roads? Are you will find some rabbit hole to stuff some in while the roads remain in a state of poor construction.

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