Over 300 Berbice residents to benefit from house lots in 1st quarter of 2022

…major infrastructural works moving apace to develop housing schemes

More than 300 residents would receive affordable house lots in three housing schemes in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) before the end of the first quarter of 2022.

This is according to Region Six Chairman David Armogan, who noted that infrastructural works are advancing at the Ordnance Fort Lands and Williamsburg Housing Schemes.
Armogan explained that the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) is pushing to complete the road and other prominent structures ahead of the land allocation exercise.
“The Minister has said by the first quarter of next year we should be able to allocate house lots in these areas,” Chairman Armogan has said in a recent interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Since taking office in August 2020, the Government has committed to delivering some 50,000 house lots within its first term in office.
Through the Housing and Water Ministry’s Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), thousands of Guyanese can now boast ownership of lands via several housing drives hosted nationwide.
However, Armogan has said the RDC is ready to partner with Government to ensure Berbicians also enjoy the services offered by the administration.
“In the Williamsburg area, what we are doing, we are building houses there which will cost about $5.2 million, so people can buy the house on the land,” the Chairman has relayed. He added that 2 contractors have already been selected to construct the homes.
Meanwhile, the Chairman has said that more than 50 asphaltic concrete roads have been completed across the region in 2021, and some of those have been financed by the Public Works Ministry and other agencies through the RDC’s budgetary allocation.
He has said that while all the thoroughfares which needed attention have not been fixed this year, the RDC was able to address those roads which were deemed a priority.
The Chairman alluded to the ongoing construction of two major roads at Numbers 52 and 58 villages on the Corentyne, which will soon give farmers access to 50,000 acres of prime farmlands. He also spoke about works progressing at the $100 million Moleson Creek-to-El Dorado Road project.
Additionally, the RDC has been able to conduct major repairs to a number of learning institutions, ensuring proper sanitary facilities are available there. Among those were the Berbice High School (BHS) and the New Amsterdam Multilateral Secondary School (NAMS).