Ongoing works to rehabilitate the Broadgate section of the Junction main road in St Mary have been irritating many residents, who are yearning for the project to be wrapped up, giving them a reprieve from the dust nuisance and dynamite blasts constantly terrorising them.
“Dust is going to kill everybody down here,” a resident lamented to a Sunday Gleaner team two weeks ago.
Despite the works, the residents say the dust nuisance has been irritating and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the shrubbery, trees, and people as a sheet of dust blanketed sections of the community.
South East St Mary MP Dr Norman Dunn, who flipped the seat from the People’s National Party to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party in the October 2017 by-election following the death of Dr Winston Green, admitted that the road works have been “inconveniencing”.
All that is further annoyance to the residents of the area, who charge that the new works have done nothing to stop the long history of flooding and mudslides in the area, lamenting that the project was not supposed to run an entire election cycle.
