{"id":24135,"date":"2024-11-18T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24135"},"modified":"2024-11-18T17:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T17:21:53","slug":"minister-edghill-allocates-2-7b-for-road-works-in-region-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/minister-edghill-allocates-2-7b-for-road-works-in-region-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Edghill Allocates $2.7B for Road Works in Region Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>October 22, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of Guyana has allocated $2.7 billion for road works in Region Five, with over 400 lots to be developed across 33 villages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Works Minister Juan Edghill made the announcement during a recent contract award ceremony at the Fort Wellington NDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Edghill emphasized that the distribution of smaller contracts for road works is not intended to sideline larger contractors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, 78 roads are being tendered for big contractors as part of the broader infrastructure development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This way of doing our work is not shutting down the big contractors. They still have their place,&#8221; said Edghill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also highlighted the growing involvement of women in the construction sector, pointing out that their participation has proven competitive, with some even delivering projects more efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have opened the gate and allowed women to come into the construction class to compete against some of the best contractors we have had at the Ministry of Public Works,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, 135 community roads have been completed in Region Five, contributing to the overall progress in the region&#8217;s road infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 22, 2024 The Government of Guyana has allocated $2.7 billion for road works in Region Five, with over 400 lots to be developed across 33 villages. Public Works Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24135","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=24135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24136,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24135\/revisions\/24136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}