More than US$500M investments ready for Enmore industrial park – Pres Ali

– dairy plant, brewery, universities, mall among proposals

The East Coast Demerara (ECD) corridor is pegged to undergo an exciting economic transformation led by multi-billion-dollar investments that will be injected into the industrial park at Enmore. Formerly a sugar-based community, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Government had outlined plans to transformed the closed estate in Enmore into an industrial and commercial zone.
Addressing residents of Enmore and surrounding communities on Friday evening, President Dr Irfaan Ali disclosed that there is already more than US$500 million of investments ready to come in this new industrial park.

Just last month, it was reported that Government has received over 20 business proposals that could see industries, manufacturing and expanded production in the community.
“In the development that we are talking about in Enmore, we have already received plans for a dairy plant, brewery expansion, private universities, modern mall, and we’re also investing in waterfront development, which is key and critical for this East Coast corridor. Because we believe the East Coast corridor also has tremendous entertainment, recreational and tourism potential, and if you see what we are doing on Unity foreshore now, we want to replicate that throughout the East Coast corridor,” the Head of State declared on Friday.
Only last month, local real estate developer, Buddy’s Housing Development, announced a US$25 million Shoreline Mall at Enmore. This new commercial and lifestyle centre will complement the company’s exclusive 89-unit condominium project – Shoreline Estates, also at the same location.
As far back as in 2021, the Ali-led Administration had been making it clear that there are major plans to convert the Enmore Sugar Estate, which was closed under the administration of the former A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) regime, into an employment hub for the ECD.
The Private Sector has also come on board this venture, with an agreement signed with majority Guyanese-owned joint venture company Guysons K+B (GKB) Industries Inc in 2022 for that entity to acquire 55 acres of land in Enmore to establish a fabrication facility offering services to the local oil and gas industry.
On Friday evening, the Head of State told residents that more massive investments, both private and public, will come to the community as well as the wide East Coast corridor over the next five years.
Already, Government has undertaken a US$192 million Railway Embankment Road Expansion Project, transforming the ECD road into four lanes from Sheriff Street to Orange Nassau. Only last week, Government commissioned the highly-anticipated US$133.8 million Ogle to Eccles Highway, which links the East Coast to the East Bank Demerara (EBD) corridor.
Now, they are also examining the feasibility and possibility of a train/rail system that will connect Grove on the East Bank to Cane Grove on the East Coast.
These are being complemented by robust housing development as well as critical investments to enhance utility services such as water and electricity supply.
On the private sector front, four new hotels are expected to be built along the East Coast corridor.
“All of this, what will it do? It will improve life, create employment, create opportunities, expand the economy, expand commerce. It’s an exciting future here on the East Coast …to support all the residents on the East Coast, especially our young people,” the president stated.
In fact, the Guyanese leader further pointed out that there will be a special entrepreneurial support programme for East Coast, targeting women and young people, in areas of agro-processing, production facility, smart agriculture and co-investment opportunities.
Moreover, President Ali also announced plans to assist livestock farmers not just with the development of pasture lands but also through infrastructure support, for which Guyana has turned to neighbouring Brazil.
“We are working with the State of Roraima, and we have decided that we are going to build a modern feed facility to support our livestock farmer on the East Coast corridor. But not only build a modern feed facility to support our livestock farmers, but more than that, we are going to set aside land through which we can build a modern support system, including the pens, so that we can have a more scientific way in which we do livestock in urban and sub-urban areas,” President Ali revealed.
These plans, he added, will commence before the end of this year.
Only recently, the Governor of Brazil’s State of Roraima, Antonio Olivério Garcia de Almeida, visited Georgetown and had discussions with the President as well as several Cabinet Ministers on strategic areas of cooperation between Guyana and Northern Brazil.
Among the areas focused on were agriculture and livestock and consequently, the two sides have decided to collaboration on developing a food and livestock processing hub at Lethem, Region Nine, to increase agriculture production and exports to the Caribbean region and beyond.