{"id":25525,"date":"2025-01-16T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25525"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:55:02","slug":"an-additional-1-2-billion-in-road-contracts-signed-in-linden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/an-additional-1-2-billion-in-road-contracts-signed-in-linden\/","title":{"rendered":"An Additional $1.2 Billion in Road Contracts Signed in Linden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>December 6, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, attended the signing of 94 road contracts worth a total of 1.2 billion dollars at the Watooka Guest House in Linden on Friday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contracts are part of the Ministry of Public Works&#8217; ongoing miscellaneous road program, aimed at improving infrastructure in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Edghill stated that these 94 contracts will complete all planned roadworks for the region in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, 46 drainage contracts totaling 76.7 million dollars were signed to further enhance drainage systems in Linden, which will work alongside efforts by the Community Infrastructure Improvement Project (CIIP), part-time programs, and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition of two small excavators for Linden was also announced to support drainage works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linden residents praised the government&#8217;s initiative, with locals such as Julio Barnwell expressing appreciation for the focus on quality work, and Leroy James and Roger Kyte sharing their excitement for the new opportunities in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just two weeks earlier, 408 small contractors from Region 10 had signed contracts totaling 7 billion dollars for road development projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new initiatives highlight the government&#8217;s continued commitment to improving local infrastructure and providing employment opportunities to small contractors and residents in Linden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 6, 2024 Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, attended the signing of 94 road contracts worth a total of 1.2 billion dollars at the Watooka Guest House in Linden&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25525","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\/25525","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=25525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25547,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions\/25547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}