The Ministry of Public Works in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development yesterday commissioned a $120.9 million road at Phase Two Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.
During a brief ribbon cutting ceremony at the East Coast village, Public Works Minister, Juan Edghill, and Local Government and Regional Development Minister, Nigel Dharamlall, commissioned the road and a 58-foot wooden bridge. They also made announcements about future projects which the two ministries will collaborate on. This project “Block 101”, was awarded to C&L Construction Inc in the sum of $120,948,000.
In his address, Dharamlall reminded of government’s commitment to upgrade roads in communities and villages across the ten regions to asphalted concrete roads and that the road at Good Hope is one of the many the ministries will be working on.
Meanwhile, the Public Works Minister said that the road is part of the many projects on the East Coast which will be covered under a budgetary allocation of $375 million for the development of NDCs. Edghill informed that there are several other projects which will be done at some of the streets at Good Hope, Mon Repos, and Lusignan. “We are here to continue to signal and to reinforce the message [that] the PPP/C believe in development in a non-discriminatory manner, we believe in development that provides equal access and equal opportunity,” he declared, adding that these roads are part of the miscellaneous roads projects which the government has started. He disclosed that the government will also commence projects to build roads which join several larger communities and even regions to each other.
