{"id":12684,"date":"2023-09-13T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=12684"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:56:52","slug":"president-ali-unveils-ambitious-infrastructural-development-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-unveils-ambitious-infrastructural-development-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Unveils Ambitious Infrastructural Development Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali has revealed that his administration is set to embark on a series of major infrastructural projects over the next three to four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Guyana is presently experiencing significant economic and infrastructural growth, President Irfaan Ali emphasizes that these efforts are aimed at addressing the immediate needs of the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, the government is poised to undertake an even more extensive range of projects, envisioning a fully connected country through an extensive network of roads and bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali also highlighted the crucial role of a deep-water port and its link to Northern Brazil in this expansive plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is set to open up new lands for investment, with a focus on sectors such as tourism, agriculture, mining, and quarrying. This initiative is expected to usher in substantial investments and development, representing what President Ali terms the &#8216;third generation of transformational projects&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali underscored that the construction sector has witnessed a remarkable 40 percent growth. In the first half of the year, an impressive $40.6 billion was expended on enhancing roads and bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This announcement was made during the commissioning of a $20 million quarry at Batavia, Region 7, over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Reporter: Josiah Williams, NCN News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Irfaan Ali has revealed that his administration is set to embark on a series of major infrastructural projects over the next three to four years. While Guyana is presently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12685,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions\/12685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}