{"id":13644,"date":"2023-11-06T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2023-11-06T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:56:30","slug":"government-engages-block-22-and-surrounding-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-engages-block-22-and-surrounding-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Engages Block 22 and Surrounding Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Residents of Block 22 and neighboring communities had the opportunity to voice their concerns and issues to government ministers over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, and Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister, Kwame McCoy, met with residents to share the government\u2019s development plans and address their concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister McCoy emphasized the government&#8217;s commitment to engaging citizens to ensure that planned developmental projects align with their best interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents raised concerns about access to potable water and the need for the development of community grounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers also discussed the need for support to scale up production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Manickchand assured the gathering that efforts will be made to address all the issues raised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also committed to assisting the family of 1-year-old Aziza Alberts, who tragically passed away after sustaining severe burns in a house fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>[Reported by Shawnette Fiedtkou]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Block 22 and neighboring communities had the opportunity to voice their concerns and issues to government ministers over the weekend. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, and Minister within&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,362,350,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-low-carbon-development","category-news","category-one-guyana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644","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=13644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13644\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}