AS PART of our mission to be the People's Paper, THE WEEKEND STAR has been highlighting problem areas across the island. Our reporter, Carolyn Johnson, along with photographer Norman Grindley, will focus on a particular area until the problem is fixed. We will then have a rough idea of how long the relevant authorities take to deal with some of the problems affecting our country.

D-Day. So, the deadline is here, two weeks are up, but Mona Road has not been completed. The detour signs appear almost every day on Mona Road at the Munroe and Ottawa roads intersection, sending traffic on to Munroe Road, but are usually removed by late evening. A signal that work is still in progress. But with a cold front out, accompanied by heavy rains, there is no telling when this road will be back to normal and traffic will ease on Munroe Road.

Months ago the National Water Commission (NWC) hired a contractor to lay sewer mains, laterals (pipes leading from the main to the customer) and manholes along Mona Road, from near the US Embassy to the Munroe Road intersection. Twice we have been given a deadline for work completion by NWC's Corporate Public Relations Manager Charles Buchanan. Both those deadlines have expired. The road is now worse than it had been when we started highlighting it more than a month ago.

But while motorists are upset, they have no choice but to bide their time in traffic, or on the trench-riddled, stone-filled road.