{"id":31277,"date":"2026-08-06T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31277"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:17:54","slug":"east-coast-residents-welcome-govt-model-village-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/east-coast-residents-welcome-govt-model-village-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast residents welcome Gov\u2019t Model Village initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Celestine Chacon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of Melanie Damishana and Non Pariel on the East Coast of Demerara have welcomed the Government&#8217;s Model Village Initiative, which will bring major infrastructure and community upgrades to the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Dr. Irfaan Ali unveiled the proposals during the launch of the initiative on the East Coast of Demerara earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the projects planned for the community are the installation of 122 streetlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other items on the agenda are the development of four industrial parking areas, the placement of 43 fire hydrants and the planting of 423 trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents were in high praise of the initiative, telling NCN News that this will be a gamechanger for their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One resident, Travez [only name given] said, &#8220;This initiative that was shown today by the president and his\u00a0 minister is actually a dream come true for me because as a boy growing up you\u2019d travel and see other spaces have and im happy this is being rolled out in Melanie and Non Pariel Area.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rupan Persaud said, &#8220;I think it\u2019s an excellent initiative , we have been having some issues mainly drainage and garbage and it\u2019s being addressed now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damieon James believes that these changes will benefit generations to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have one son , he\u2019s three years old so I love the development so with that coming into Play, so when he reach 18 he will know its hard work,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The initiative also includes the rehabilitation of four playgrounds and &nbsp;significant drainage improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, the construction of more than 43,400 metres of concrete drains, approximately 70 culverts and seven bridges, and nearly 26,900 metres of walkways are planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Celestine Chacon Residents of Melanie Damishana and Non Pariel on the East Coast of Demerara have welcomed the Government&#8217;s Model Village Initiative, which will bring major infrastructure and community&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,471,366,363,350],"tags":[488,916,370,1178,412,405],"class_list":["post-31277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-infrastructural-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","tag-488","tag-east-coast","tag-guyana","tag-model-village","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31277","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31279,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31277\/revisions\/31279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}