Govt awards $842.3M in contracts for Reg 10 road works

The Public Works Ministry has signed contracts to the tune of $842,393,353 for the rehabilitation of 19 miscellaneous roads in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), all of which will be completed in three months.
The projects include the Block 22 Main Road, Wismar; Ice Water Road, Block 22; Broad Money Street, Amelia’s Ward; Community Centre North Side Road, Amelia’s Ward; Henry’s Road, South Amelia’s Ward; Well Road, Amelia’s Ward; Lover’s Lane and School Access Road, Amelia’s Ward; Second Corner Main Street; Empire Drive Road; Last Cross Street, Empire Drive; Blue Berry Hill Back Road; Oval Road, Retrieve, Linden; Harvey’s Road, One Mile Extension; Bobby Nowel’s Street, One Mile, Linden; Riverside Road, Watooka; West Watooka Hill Top; West Watooka Internal Road; Half Mile Road, Wismar; and Green Valley Road, Wismar.
Public Works Minister Juan Edghill facilitated the signing ceremony, where he urged contractors to immediately get into execution mode. Meanwhile, he reemphasised the Government’s massive build-out plan for Region 10, which will continue into 2024.

Just recently, instruction was given by President Irfaan Ali to pave 1000 metres of roadway in Coomacka, along with another 1600 metres at Old England/Siberia, Minister Edghill stated, adding that these roads are at crusher run level and must be brought up to asphaltic concrete.
Additionally, he said there is work to be done at Ituni, as well as a new road to be constructed at Black Bush for which the contract will be awarded immediately.
Edghill said along with 62 roads to be built and some $300 million earmarked for projects under the hinterland programme for Region 10, there is work and opportunity for everyone. He said, like every other region of the country, Region 10 is experiencing a massive infrastructural overhaul in keeping with the Government’s national buildout plan.
This year, through the Housing and Water, Public Works and Local Government and Regional Development Ministries, more than 1100 internal access roads in communities across the country were to be upgraded to concrete and asphaltic concrete.
In January, Minister within the Public Works Ministry Deodat Indar had disclosed that for just 2022, over 1100 roads were built in communities across Guyana, as the Government was still fixing infrastructure that was left abandoned under the former APNU/AFC Administration.