Residents question quality of Haiti’s Northwest new road project, call for paved highway

Residents question quality of Haiti’s Northwest new road project, call for paved highway

PORT-DE-PAIX — Construction has begun on a long-awaited road project in Haiti’s Northwest but many residents fear the government is once again settling for temporary repairs instead of building the durable paved highway the region has sought for decades. The government allocated 377 million gourdes, or nearly $3 million, in the national budget to rehabilitate the nearly 30-mile Jean-Rabel–Port-de-Paix corridor. Residents say, however, that the i…