$9M recreational facility to provide safe space for Enmore residents

In the coming weeks, work will commence to upgrade the Enmore Pasture (South) Recreational Facility, East Coast Demerara (ECD), aimed towards providing a safe space for families and residents to spend their leisure time.
During a visit in March, Minister within the Housing and Water Ministry, Susan Rodrigues had been asked by residents to make representation to have the community facility rehabilitated, after which she committed to intervene.  At a recent walkthrough of the facility with community representatives and an engineer, Minister Rodrigues outlined the plans to upgrade the facility.
The works to be undertaken will include the construction of a 175 feet chain link fence, land clearing of 1.5 acres and sand filling of 1.5 acres.
The $9 million contract to complete this rehabilitation was earlier awarded to Amazon Planx.
Rodrigues noted that this facility will add to the overall well-being in the area, as it seeks to provide a safe space for extracurricular activities for families and their children.
She added that while the Ministry focuses on building communities, an essential part of this is ensuring that communities are furnished with facilities that aid the social wellbeing of citizens.
This marks a continuation of the work that the Housing Ministry has been engaging in to improve the living standards for residents of Enmore and ECD at large.
During the launch of the second edition of the “Dream Realised” housing allocation exercise on Monday, the Ministry distributed lots along Good Hope and Two Friends Village to about 800 low and moderate-income earners.
This forms part of the Ministry’s aggressive home ownership agenda in which they intend on allocating 50,000 house lots by 2025. Thus far, they have distributed over 23,000.
Chief Executive Officer of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), Sherwyn Greaves had shared that these housing schemes are in a prime location since a new commercial zone is in the pipeline for Enmore.
Infrastructural development work to convert land previously utilised by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) into the Enmore Industrial site began in March. This industrial zone is expected to accommodate several factories and fabrication facilities, and create close to 1000 jobs.
Meanwhile in May, some 22 Enmore Grass Field residents had received their Certificates of Title, less than a week after processing of their ownership documents had commenced.