Mikael Phillips, Opposition Spokesman on Works - file photo
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Mikael Phillips
The Parliamentary Opposition is raising questions about how the Lengthsman Programme will be financed.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday announced plans to employ poor Jamaicans under the programme to maintain assigned sections of public roads and drains.
Opposition Spokesman on Works, Mikael Phillips, while welcoming news that the Lengthsman Programme is to be revived, said more details are needed.
"Implementing it is one thing, it's having the budget to deal with it; and that is what I would love to see first - where will the funding come from to do a maintenance progamme like that?
Mr. Phillips said he has been calling for a consistent maintenance programme following the discontinuation of the Road Maintenance Fund.
He said a People's National Party government would look at implementing the Lengthsman Programme if the current administration does not follow through on its promise.
Under the traditional Lengthsman Programme, abandoned several years ago, an individual was assigned responsibility for maintaining a particular stretch of road.
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