Region 6 on track to complete 2022 work programme

The Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) administration is well on track to complete its 2022 work programme.
To date, the Region has completed 90 per cent of its planned work for the year.
The administration is boasting that it has developed a good working relationship with contractors in the region despite having to read the riot act to one.
Currently, there are a lot of capital programmes taking place in Region Six; however, Regional Vice Chairman Zamal Hussain said most of those projects are being undertaken by the Public Works Ministry and other agencies.
This year the region is seeing close to 500 roads being upgraded. According to the Vice Chairman, who also heads the Regional Works Committee, the region has completed 90 per cent of its planned work programme and hopes to reach 100 per cent before the year ends.
According to him, four major projects are still ongoing.
Addressing the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Hussain said one of the projects was the jetty at Baracara on which work has started. He explained that the contractor experienced some difficulty getting materials to the site.
That riverine community is located 63.64 kilometres (140 miles) up the Canje River.
The Regional Vice Chairman noted that along with the Regional Executive Officer and the Regional Engineer, he met with the contractor.
“We had to read the riot act to him and as such, the work is ongoing,” Hussain said.
Among the other ongoing projects is the health centre at Fort Ordinance. That project, he pointed, is almost finished.
“Very shortly that will be completed along with the Number 52 and Number 46 sluices are all in progress and will be finished before the end of the year. Basically, these are the four major projects from the $1.6 billion that we were allocated.”
Of that sum $1.4 billion has already been spent.
The Vice Chairman, who was presenting a works committee report to the RDC, was questioned about some issues with some of the contractors executing projects in Region Six. He noted that not all of the work was being undertaken by regional authorities. (G4)