King Says Saint Lucia’s Infrastructure In Deficit

At a pre-Cabinet press briefing on Monday the Minister with Responsibility for Infrastructure, Ports and Transport, Stephenson King, updated the media on the state of the country’s infrastructure. “In the year of infrastructure the department of infrastructure, ports and transport has undertaken a number of road rehabilitation works and also road maintenance activities,”  King stated. “In this regard the department has been responding to the needs of Saint Lucians. We recognise that the road infrastructure in Saint Lucia has deteriorated over a period of time and in many instances that period of deterioration has been well over five years, ten years thereabout,” he explained. “What we have also realised is that our infrastructure, apart from decaying we are in deficit in terms of maintaining our infrastructure, whether it is water, roads and you name it. In all of those areas we are in deficit and so the year of infrastructure falls in line with our strategic plan,” King said. The plan the Minister told reporters,  is referred to as infrastructure 2030 and challenges the Government to bring existing infrastructure up to date and forecast needs by the year 2030. King then went on to outline a number of ongoing road...