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**Concern Citizen** » 2012-06-11 10:36

There are many more dangerous sidewalks holes in St. John's, which persons have warned about on the airways. But public works doesn't realy seem to be concer. Eventhough we pride ourselves to bring many tourists here and cruiseships. These are all major accidents waiting to happen and the liability would be great. I guess it's the tax payers will have to put up the bill. Caribarena should sent out a team to take pictures of all these holes in town and place them on the website and let us see how long it takes Public Works to finish them. I almost fell in the one close to Gloria's Beauty Salon on Cross street as I was saying hello to someone passing in a vehicle next I see this big hole in front of me. Thank God for the right reaction I had. I think I made an Olympic jumping record.

**yaya** » 2012-06-10 15:38

Some time last year after visiting ANU,I commented on the horrible sidewalks and the high brushes, bushes, trees (choose a name) which lined the street, the airport road, and the route to the hotels, (Sandals etc). The question I posed was how did the members of the government (past or present) travel around Antigua. Did they use helicopter services so as to avoid these terrible sights on the island? It's about time the govt repair the sidewalks and potholes properly and stop patching holes in the streets and doing mediocre jobs. Get it done properly the first time and you won't have to do it again.

**Eric** » 2012-06-10 14:05

Oh! If only we Antiguans would not remover the covers or damage them with our cars when we park on the sidewalks. – Then of course the covers would be there and in good condition.
Yes these things must be repaired and replaced when damaged or missing, but we as responsible citizens must first take care of what we have and stop vandalizing them.
Stop stuffing rubbish in the cutters – that only cause more problems. The money to replace these items must come from some place - We complain when money has to be spent to correct what was already corrected.

**skyewill** » 2012-06-10 10:11

I would aks the person in charge to resign

**tenman** » 2012-06-10 09:08

Taxnomore they (Tourist) have sued and the matters have been settled out of court for a pretty sum. Its not an incentive to fix the problem because these settlements are not made public

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**Osbert R. Frederick** » 2012-06-10 08:03

These are the same sidewalks that the UPP spent tens of millions of dollars of tax payers money building and just a few years later they have fallen apart. It is a shame. This is another scandal of mega proportion like the fence, power plant, car park, Bencorp building, food city building and the list goes on and on. Until it costs tax payers millions in law suits, nothing will be done with these side walks. Jail, jail for those ** who have robbed this country blind.

**Taxnomore** » 2012-06-10 06:19

Having just returned from time on the island with my wife, who insisted on shopping in St John's. After spending the better part of the day trying to navigate open sewer grates, unsafe sidewalks, elevations on sidewalks at streets edge one would need a stepladder to negotiate which forces people into the street to get around creating an additional hazard. Why would the government not try to put the best possible foot forward by improving the situation not only for shopkeepers and residents, but also tourists who incidentally spend alot of money on the island. Do they not realize that in the internet age you cannot hide incompetance or skullduggery? Simple steps like repairing a simple sidewalk are improvements which return funds spent many times over. Or perhaps, they are waiting for a government official or wealthy tourist to sue?

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