Residents of Canal Number Two Polder today are calling for the main access bridge leading to the Mc Gillvray Primary School to be reconstructed.
They claim that the neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) dismantled the bridge that more than 300 children use to get to school about two months ago and promised to rebuild it but to date nothing has happened.
The residents say that the region three chairman Mr. Faiber was contacted and he told them that funds were not available to start the construction.
The parents of the children that attend the school say it is difficult for their children to go to school since the bridge was dismantled and they would have to walk almost two miles to reach the other bridge to get across the canal.
As the residents protested and calls on the media to highlight their plight, a private contractor turned up and said he was hired to start construction of the bridge.
He said this will be done at a bidding cost of $987,000 and must be done in time for the opening of the next school year which begins on next Monday.
