{"id":26674,"date":"2025-02-20T19:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26674"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:12:04","slug":"ndcs-to-receive-firefighting-equipment-for-faster-community-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ndcs-to-receive-firefighting-equipment-for-faster-community-response\/","title":{"rendered":"NDCs to Receive Firefighting Equipment for Faster Community Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | February 4, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) across the country will soon be equipped with mobile firefighting equipment as part of a broader initiative to strengthen local emergency response efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure falls under the $2.8 billion allocation for local government bodies within the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development\u2019s $41.9 billion budget, recently approved by the Committee of Supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the distribution of firefighting vehicles, NDCs will serve as first responders to community fires, reducing response times and potentially preventing extensive damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 40 firefighting vehicles have already arrived and will be distributed to various locations in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, this year\u2019s budget includes a $5 million allocation for NDCs, along with grants of either $4 million or $5 million per council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Municipalities will receive $18 million, while Georgetown has been allocated a larger sum of $30 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These financial provisions will be supplemented with new equipment to improve waste disposal services in communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further investments will also be directed toward upgrading market infrastructure and enhancing waste management facilities nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | February 4, 2025 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) across the country will soon be equipped with mobile firefighting equipment as part of a broader initiative to strengthen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674","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=26674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26675,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26674\/revisions\/26675"}],"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=26674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}