Palmyra Int’l Stadium taking shape with completion date remaining 1st quarter of 2026

Back in October, Culture, Youth and Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr announced that the construction of the international stadium at Palmyra, Berbice was moving apace with completion in sight by the first quarter of 2026.
On Monday, the Minister posted photographs of the ongoing construction on social media with the caption, “The Palmyra International Stadium in Berbice, Region 6 is taking shape.”
The project, which began in March 2023, was initially expected to be completed by 2025, but the Minister reported in October that owing to some setbacks, the stadium would be ready by the first quarter of the new year.

Work on the Palmyra Stadium officially commenced with the sod-turning ceremony in early March 2023. The project costs about $3.7 billion and is being funded through the Stabroek Block partners via the Greater Guyana Initiative. The contractors are Caribbean Green Building Inc, with support from Owen Steel.
Ramson Jr, during his last visit, stated, “Based on the progress made, completion is in sight. We are at a very good place right now to see completion by the first quarter of next year, give and take a few weeks. That is the timeline that we project to see completion. What you would have seen there too is that we started with a blank canvas. Just on the sand filling alone, we had to do over 160,000 tons of sand to make that facility in a state of readiness just to commence, and then a lot of pile driving, etc. Before, it was cane fields very swampy, very clayey so very unstable for building large infrastructure like what we are building right now. It is moving at a pace; all of the pieces that are needed for completion, all the major pieces, are in the country,” he added.

Further, he noted that there were some setbacks with materials as several components of the facility were manufactured and assembled in different countries.
He was nevertheless confident that the stadium would be completed by the new date and Berbice will be able to host international cricket matches.
Meanwhile, there has been no international cricket in Berbice since April 1985, when the West Indies beat New Zealand by 130 runs. The match was played at the Albion Sports Complex, which was the venue in Berbice to host international cricket. Albion Sports Complex has hosted five One-Day International (ODI) matches between 1977 and 1985.
The teams that played in ODIs at Albion include the West Indies as the home side, Pakistan, England, India, Australia, and New Zealand.