ALBERT TOWN, Trelawny – Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry says the government is still committed to improving the island’s deplorable interior roadways, despite the severe economic challenges facing the country.

“Although times are hard and we don’t have enough to recover from the number of years that we failed to maintain the interior roads, we have moved some of the focus to the hinterland including farm roads,” Henry said.

He was speaking last Thursday at a brief ceremony in the farming community of Woodgrove, shortly after declaring open the recently rehabilitated Campbell’s Land and Woodgrove parochial roads in Southern Trelawny, which were upgraded at a cost of $28 million with funds from the gas cess.

Henry argued that the cess would enable the government to fulfil its election promise of improving the slew of interior roads abandoned by the previous People’s National Party’s (PNP) administration.

He told the residents of Woodgrove that plans were also in place to rehabilitate a number of other parochial roads in the parish,

including the Troy to Wire Fence roadway.

Noting the importance of farm roads in the parish, the works minister added that the National Works Agency (NWA) would also be addressing a number of them in coming months.

The Woodgrove and Campbell’s Land roads were rehabilitated following representation from Member of Parliament for the area, Marisa Dalrymple Philibert.