“Roseau Enhancement Project To Start” – Poponne-Skerrit

The Roseau Enhancement Project will get underway later this year, according to Melissa Poponne-Skerrit, the Parliamentary Representative for the Roseau Central Constituency.

When it’s finished, Roseau will be “a brand-new city, the most modern city in the Caribbean,” according to her.

The Roseau Enhancement Project will be funded by a US$41 million loan from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which the government got approval from Parliament in November 2023.

The Roseau Enhancement Project aims to transform Roseau into a modern, visually pleasing metropolitan hub. This all-encompassing project includes rehabilitating roads and bridges, building pathways for pedestrians, and expanding the city’s lighting system.

She added, “The Roseau Enhancement Project is well underway.” As you know, we requested a loan from Saudi Arabia. Although we already have the early designs, a number of studies still need to be completed.

Poponne-Skerrit noted that there have been various obstacles to the project.

“In particular, there have been some obstacles in our path to modernize the utility companies and wires and move them to underground cables,” the speaker said. They aren’t quite ready, so this has presented a little issue for us, but we managed to go around it. This is one of our holdups, in my opinion.