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Rio Grande Valley, Portland:
The Rio Grande Valley in Portland Eastern still has a network of roads in deplorable condition, 12 years after a market truck crash which claimed the lives of 14 people, including a 10-year-old boy.
Today marks the 12th anniversary since the truck, laden with agricultural produce and which was transporting 21 people – the majority of whom were higglers from the communities of Ginger House, Comfort Castle, Mill Bank and Cornwall Barracks – plunged into a ravine at Dam Bridge at about 9 p.m. as they were making their way to the Coronation Market in Kingston.
Since the tragedy, the roadway leading from Cross Roads in Port Antonio to Moore Town has been resurfaced, but the above-named communities are still bedevilled by bad roads. So, too, are those of Bellevue and a section of Kent, where roughly two miles of resurfacing work was done.