{"id":25986,"date":"2025-02-01T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25986"},"modified":"2025-02-01T20:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:00:48","slug":"government-signs-63-contracts-worth-104m-for-drainage-and-irrigation-in-region-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-signs-63-contracts-worth-104m-for-drainage-and-irrigation-in-region-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Signs 63 Contracts Worth $104M for Drainage and Irrigation in Region 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon<\/em><br><em>December 24, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a significant step towards improving drainage and irrigation in Region 2, the government has signed 63 contracts totaling $104 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contract signing ceremony took place yesterday and was overseen by Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Edghill emphasized the government&#8217;s ongoing commitment to enhancing drainage and irrigation systems across all ten municipalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reiterated that supporting small contractors remains a priority, stating that many of the awarded contracts have gone to ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also provided details on the scale and timeline of the projects, noting that some contracts, with values ranging from $1 million to $2 million, could be completed within a week, depending on the execution and management of the tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted that these collaborative efforts between regional stakeholders and local citizens are essential to the development of the region and will contribute to the improvement of infrastructure in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine ChaconDecember 24, 2024 In a significant step towards improving drainage and irrigation in Region 2, the government has signed 63 contracts totaling $104 million. The contract signing ceremony&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25986","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\/25986","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=25986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25987,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25986\/revisions\/25987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}