{"id":26471,"date":"2025-02-09T02:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T02:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26471"},"modified":"2025-02-09T02:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T02:39:37","slug":"government-allocates-53-2-billion-for-road-projects-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-allocates-53-2-billion-for-road-projects-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Allocates $53.2 Billion for Road Projects in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Delicia Janneire | January 21, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of Guyana has allocated an additional 53.2 billion dollars in the 2025 national budget to continue its ongoing community road construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This funding follows the 73 billion dollars spent in 2024 to improve community roads across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, emphasized that the focus in 2024 was on constructing internal community roads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, however, the priority will shift to upgrading the main access roads in these areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edghill noted that while the internal roads were completed, the next phase involves improving the main road arteries that connect villages to broader transportation networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key infrastructure projects slated for 2025 include the construction of the Corentyne River Bridge and a new Berbice River Bridge, both crucial for improving connectivity between regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the expansion of the four-lane highway from Orange Nassau Mahaica to Sheriff Mandela and the road from Ogle to Eccles are also part of the government\u2019s plans for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The budget also includes provisions for upgrading the Linden Soesdyke highway, with plans to install 2,900 streetlights along the corridor to improve road safety and accessibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the road from Schoonord to Parika and the modernization of Parika Stelling are set to be upgraded to meet the needs of a growing population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the 2025 budget appropriates 53.2 billion dollars for road and bridge rehabilitation, with further investments for river transport, air transport, and sea and river defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Delicia Janneire | January 21, 2025 The Government of Guyana has allocated an additional 53.2 billion dollars in the 2025 national budget to continue its ongoing community road construction,&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-26471","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\/26471","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=26471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26472,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26471\/revisions\/26472"}],"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=26471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}