HELP is coming for the West Rural St Andrew community of Brandon Hill and other divisions in the sprawling constituency, according to member of parliament Paul Buchanan.

Buchanan on Thursday met with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips and junior works minister Richard Azan, among others, at Jamaica House where discussions were held about the state of roads in West Rural St Andrew and other constituencies.

“I made an impassioned plea to the PM and the minister of finance on behalf of the Brandon Hill people and other divisions,” Buchanan told the Jamaica Observer.

Buchanan said a “strong commitment” was made to restore the roads and to replace some roads where necessary.

He said the PM acknowledged the “urgency” of the situation and agreed that work must be done as soon as possible.

Buchanan listed as his main concern the Brandon Hill loop from Mount Friendship to Mount Airy, to Blake’s bridge to Junction road.

Submissions, he said, were made for repairs to roads in Finger Post and Mount Olive in Lawrence Tavern. He said he also made the case for repair of Cushnie Road, Rock Hall and Burnside Hill in Red Hills.

The repair work could run to over $200 million.

“His constituency is on the priority list and that of [junior tourism] Minister [Damion] Crawford’s [East Rural St Andrew] constituency, St Mary and Portland,” Azan said.

“The residents have to bear in mind that funding is the major problem that we have. It’s not like the MP hasn’t made his submission,” Azan said.

The meeting came ahead of the publication of an Observer story last Friday in which residents of Brandon Hill complained about the state of roads in the division, some of which were caused by land slippage.

One resident told the Observer that Buchanan hasn’t undertaken a project in Brandon Hill since wresting power from the Jamaica Labour Party’s Andrew Gallimore in the 2011 general elections.

But Buchanan rubbished that claim, saying that he has over 100 solid achievements of work done in Brandon Hill and throughout the constituency over his first 30 months in office.

He said the achievements were completed with the full support of councillors across the constituency and include the construction of the new Red Hills Primary School; construction of the new Red Hills roadway from Red Hills Square to Rock Hall; construction of the new Golden Spring Health Centre and upgrading of the four clinics at Red Hills, Padmore, Lawrence Tavern and Rock Hall; planning of a new type V centre of excellence clinic at Stony Hill; repair of life-threatening and impassable breakaways at Mount Ogle, Allman Hill and Oberlin; award of scholarships and education support to over 300 students valued at more than $15 million for the period 2012-14; construction of the Tom’s River to Belmont road; asphalt surfacing of Boone Hall Housing Scheme; installation of a reliable water supply in Stony Hill for the first time in a generation; construction of a new bridge at Halls Green; repair of the existing bridge at Tavern Gully and upgrading its decades-old dirt track to the now George Mason Drive; paving of the dirt-filled pathways at Mount Zion and Burkewood in Red Hills; upgrading of Sterling Castle, Stony Hill and Old Stony Hill main roads; paving of Mount Royal, Wireless Station Road, Airy Castle and Mannings Hill roads; drainage/road works in progress at Golden Spring to Mount Airy Road and Arthur Leon Drive; and upgrading of Temple Hall to Border roadway allowing for the return of Jamaica Urban Transit Company buses.

“Deep down,” he said, “everybody knows that I have worked non-stop.”