{"id":26070,"date":"2025-02-01T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26070"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:02:59","slug":"demolition-of-properties-in-path-of-new-demerara-river-bridge-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/demolition-of-properties-in-path-of-new-demerara-river-bridge-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of Properties in Path of New Demerara River Bridge Nears Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Delicia Janneire, NCN News \u2013 December 31, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demolition of all properties in the path of the New Demerara River Bridge at Peter\u2019s Hall is almost complete, with the final properties set to be cleared soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, provided this update during a site visit conducted earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the overall construction progress of the bridge now at 78%, full clearance has been granted for the demolition of the remaining properties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All payments to the property owners have been made, and demolition of the last houses is expected to be completed by next Wednesday, December 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contractor, Wang Zhiliang of China Railway Construction Company Limited, expressed his satisfaction with the progress, noting that the completion of property clearance ensures no further delays in the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this issue resolved, work on the bridge will continue smoothly to meet the March 31, 2025, deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, 48 girders have been installed on the West Bank side of the bridge, and 16 have been placed on the East Bank side. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Demerara River Bridge remains a critical infrastructure project aimed at improving transportation and connectivity in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Delicia Janneire, NCN News \u2013 December 31, 2024 The demolition of all properties in the path of the New Demerara River Bridge at Peter\u2019s Hall is almost complete, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070","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=26070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26071,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26070\/revisions\/26071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}