Thorsten, spot on. This government is now considering trying to "re-develop" Prospect Reef, a quintessential white elephant (https://bvinews.com/govt-makes-fresh-attempts-to-develop-prospect-reef/) and your personal experience reciting the appalling condition of the territory's roads is but one of many.

The reason yours isn’t an exceptional situation is simple: it’s easier to reward lackeys with a government job that has them sitting in an air-conditioned office all day doing very little, as compared to making them work out in the elements repairing a road. If given a choice, everyone would elect the former over the latter (no pun intended).

The territory should reassign at least 30% of its office workers to roadwork; services would not decline one whit, but to close this loop, the fact that the idea of investing in the development of the Prospect Reef site demonstrates just how awful and out of touch the elected officials really are.