Three areas at Amelia’s Ward, Mackenzie, Linden, are presently being targeted by the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LM&TC) as it embarks on its capital works road rehabilitation programme.
Upper Main Street, Amelia’s Ward, being rehabilitated
The areas currently benefiting from such road works include Church Lane, upper Main Street and Banquet Hall road.
Linden Town Clerk (TC) Jenella Bowen during an interview with Guyana Times said the three projects are a cumulative sum of $3 million, which is an additional sum of the Council’s 2015 subvention that has been provided by Central Government.
The roads which were in dire need of repairs had been identified for upgrades under the previous Council, however Bowen explained that those works are only now being executed: “We were able to officially uplift our cheque…$8 million, to start with our subvention. We haven’t had any monies from Central Government for 2016, it’s our first tranche.
Once we would have expended just maybe about 90 per cent of that, we will be allowed to uplift our second tranche. It is now August and it would have been late July when we would have gotten the cheque. So we have practically just a few months to complete the year’s proposed and approved capital works and the use of our subvention monies.”
The rehabilitation includes patch-works and resurfacing.
