{"id":22091,"date":"2024-09-03T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22091"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:16:47","slug":"president-ali-announces-42m-in-investments-for-region-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-announces-42m-in-investments-for-region-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Announces $42M in Investments for Region Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced a series of projects for the Amerindian village of Monkey Mountain, Region Eight, amounting to over $42 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include the completion of three bridges and the construction of a shade house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president, currently on a two-day outreach to the Potaro-Siparuni region, explained that these initiatives would significantly boost economic opportunities for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Ali revealed the construction of a new secondary school at a cost of over $199 million, alongside substantial investments in the health sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These include a $39 million upgrade to the Monkey Mountain Health Centre\u2019s electrical system and $7.5 million for staff quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali emphasized his government\u2019s dedication to rural development, noting that approximately $600 million has been invested in the region over the past four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced a series of projects for the Amerindian village of Monkey Mountain, Region Eight, amounting to over $42 million. These include the completion of three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091","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=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22092,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions\/22092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}