A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s Joseph Harmon, along with other members of the coalition yesterday paid a site visit to the crumbling seawall at Mosquito Hall,China Jerseys Wholesale, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD), and said that there needs to be an urgent session held to allow stakeholders to come together and devise a strategic plan of action.Harmon said that based on observations,Cheap Jerseys USA, there are several sections of the sea defence structure in the locale that are crumbling and need to be urgently addressed.APNU’s Joseph Harmon watches as a Works Ministry employee fills the gaping breach with sandbags.According to Harmon, should the wall be breached and the coast flooded,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, it will not be a case of APNU, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) or Alliance for Change (AFC) supporters being affected,China NFL Jerseys, “all of us will be affected”.Harmon said that ever since the budget presentation earlier this year, he had pointed out to the House that the amount of money allocated for emergency works was clearly not enough. He said that with the monstrosity of an erection that was recently built on the seawall as well as the sandbagging exercise earlier in the year on the lower east coast, he is quite certain that the money allocated for emergency works has already been utilised.Harmon reported that during the visit, a couple of workers from the Ministry of Public Works were observed putting bags with what they said was concrete mix into the gaping hole in the seawall. He said that there were breakages observed at several points along the clearly brittle seawall.The damage, he said, appeared to have been caused by erosion and high tides.Harmon reiterated that there must be a special session where they can sit down and structure a response to the failing sea defences, while charging that “the Government needs to get away from the mentality that no good suggestions or recommendations could come from the opposition benches”.The coalition, in a subsequent statement to the media, quoted Harmon as saying that the visit was done at the request of concerned residents, to inspect the crumbling sea defences in the area.It said that after viewing the gaping holes and the crumbling sea wall, Harmon asserted that what he had witnessed was the result of systemic neglect and a lack of a structured national plan to deal with the nation’s sea and river defences.The Member of Parliament opined that because of the neglect, the lives of the residents of Mosquito Hall are now in jeopardy and those persons, most of whom are fisher-folk, are now threatened by the very sea from which they earn their living.“We are in a constant battle to protect and maintain the structural integrity of our sea and river defence structures, and to develop sustainable shore management systems to contain the ravages of the ever encroaching Atlantic Ocean and the PPP/C Administration is not doing enough to safeguard the lives and livelihood of the residents of coastal communities like Mosquito Hall,Cheap MLB Jerseys Authentic, Mahaica.”As a result, APNU called on the administration to “act now,NFL Jerseys China Online, so as to avert a catastrophic event”. “The nation’s sea and river defences are all in need of urgent attention.”APNU further called on the Ministry of Public Works and all other relevant government agencies and departments to expedite repairs and the structural rehabilitation work to the Mosquito Hall sea defences.Harmon was accompanied on his visit to the Mosquito Hall sea defences by Regional Councilors Shondel Hope, Ramrattie Jagdeo and Ronald Backer from the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.Meanwhile the Ministry of Public Works in a statement yesterday said that two major contracts involving the rehabilitation of concrete river defences at Mosquito Hall/Lancaster were executed during the period 2011 to 2012.“These works addressed problematic sections of sea defences which were undermined and frequently overtopped during spring tides.”The Ministry said that in addition to concrete works, a total of 700 metres of eroded earthen embankment was rehabilitated and adjacent fa?ade drains constructed for the storage and conveyance of overtopping discharge in order to reinforce the flood defence system.It said too that during December 2013, a contract requiring the rehabilitation of a section of the earthen embankment and slope protection works in undermined areas was awarded to a private contractor. Those works commenced during December 2013 and are scheduled for completion at the end of this month.The Ministry said that in addition to the ongoing contracted works,

A Rosignol, West Bank Berbice teen, is still in pain after he was injured in an accident not far from his home in April. The lad, 17-year- old Kenny Satrohan, of Lot 33 Bennett Dam, Rosignol, was riding home from work on the Rosignol Public Road on March 22 around 17:30 hrs.Kenny SatrohanHe said that another vehicle, a Tiger Hilux Forerunner (GMM 9981) pulled up suddenly in front of him in the ‘white line’ of the road and caused an accident.He said the driver of the vehicle was the Estate Manager of Blairmont Estate. Several attempts to reach the individual proved futile since his secretary said he was in a seminar.Satrohan said that he had no time to brake. He hit the vehicle and fell on the roadside. “I run into him and he opened the door at the same time and I fell down”.The young man added that the driver came out “and was just standing up, not doing anything like nothing ain’t happen”. Several by-standers, he noted,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, witnessed the incident,Cheap NFL Jerseys, including his brother who came rushing to his assistance.“My brother asked him [the driver] what he would do and he said, ‘he could do anything, kill anybody and go away and nobody can’t do him anything”.About fifteen minutes later, an ambulance took Satrohan to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he was examined and given injections on his right hip. At that time, he noted, he was feeling immense pain in his right hand and left hip.The hospital officials, he said,Wholesale Basketball Jerseys, told them that there was no x-ray machine at Fort Wellington, so they had to transfer him to New Amsterdam Hospital, where they were informed that the x-ray machine there was “not working”. They were met with the same message upon visiting the hospital again the next day and had to return after the weekend.The hand was x-rayed and placed in a cast the following Monday in New Amsterdam. To date, several weeks after the incident, the young man is still in pain and is on medication for his hand and hip.The family reported the matter to the Blairmont Police Station after which the case was called on April 3. However, the boy’s mother,Cheap Jerseys From China, Parbattie Satrohan, said that when they turned up at court on that day,Cheap NFL Jerseys, a police officer came out and told them “that when the judge call the case,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, he will call us, but he never called back to this day”. The matter has since been left hanging. And the Satrohans want justice.The boy’s mother said that the driver never visited the family or even called to apologise or to find out how her son was doing. “He [Satrohan] does work and support me; times hard…now he can’t work anymore because his hand is swelling…he can’t lift heavy weight or anything– he worked a few days with Star Seafoods but he couldn’t manage, the Director had to send him home”.The woman added that her husband is very sickly and she depended on her son for a financial brace, but since the accident, the burdens have been great on her.“Sometimes he [the driver] can do the same thing to somebody else”, she complained. “Since the accident, ‘til now, he [the driver] ain’t get the mind to come back and ask how the boy doing”.Satrohan is scared to speak to this newspaper for fear that the driver might retaliate by harming him or his family in any way for speaking out and especially since he [the driver] is in a senior position of power at the estate.He noted, too, that the driver “is going around telling people that he gave me $600,000 compensation but it is not true”.