Some residents and business owners were at their wits end yesterday due to ongoing road works on Market Street and Robinson Road which they claimed should have been completed already.
Witmore Fowler, owner of Superior Welding, said his business is now suffering as a result.
"This is the worst business has been in 23 years," Fowler said.  "We need improvement but it is really dragging on longer than it's supposed to and the people doing the work have no consideration for the business people in the community."
Market Street and Robinson Road are just some of the areas affected by the New Providence Road Improvement Project.
Last month, many of the residents The Nassau Guardian interviewed agreed that the road works are necessary.  However, some residents said they have now had enough.
The Nassau Guardian visited the area yesterday and found that there were still a number of deep trenches alongside the two roads.  The area was covered in fill but not paved and there were several large holes in both roads, a similar scene in the area approximately five weeks ago.
Alexander Kemp, the son of proprietor Barry Kemp, who operates A-1 Lock & Key, was among those expressing disapproval.
"These changes are deplorable," Kemp said.  "Although they have [covered the roads with fill] there are still holes.  This is foolishness."
His establishment, which is located near the Market Street and Robinson Road intersection, is experiencing a significant decrease in business, according to Kemp.
"This is impacting business drastically," he said. "Business is still horrible because there are so many detours that people cannot come to us.  We are making off site visits, which are keeping us afloat but if we rely on this strictly we will not be able to pay bills."
He added that repeated digging up and re-filling of Market Street has added a new level of frustration.
"They need to hurry up and pave this road," Kemp said.
"A-1 Lock & Key had to repeatedly call the Ministry of Public Works for fill just to be poured down. This should not be.  On the news we saw that they were supposed to have paved this road from last week and it is not done."
A Ministry of Public Works supervisor on the scene pointed out that delays have been a result of poor weather conditions.
Although he and his colleague did not wish to speak on the record, he claimed that work, which is conducted underground has been a lot more challenging to carry out because of the rain and utilities involved.
A resident of Market Street, who preferred to remain anonymous, claimed that most recent digging of the road, which occurred sometime last week, is the third time the road had been dug up and covered will fill.
Witmore also claimed yesterday that he was forced to take matters into his own hands when he was unable to access his property due to a build-up of debris left by workers after filling the road.
"This morning I had to get my men to dig down the road just to be able to get into my yard," he said. "This also happened on Thursday of last week.  They (road project workers) had it all built up and left it out and said it was a government thing."
Witmore pointed out that the work will be appreciated once finished but consideration of the business owners in the area needs to be a priority, "so that we are able to start making some money."

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