{"id":31743,"date":"2026-09-02T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:26:27","slug":"41-7b-in-hinterland-communities-investment-as-ali-calls-for-better-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/41-7b-in-hinterland-communities-investment-as-ali-calls-for-better-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"$41.7B in hinterland communities investment as Ali calls for better connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by NaAsia Bristol <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government has invested\u00a0more than $41.7 billion\u00a0in Amerindian villages and communities over the past five years,\u00a0supporting\u00a0infrastructure, agriculture, energy and community development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President&nbsp;Irfaan Ali made&nbsp;the disclosure&nbsp;when he&nbsp;addressed&nbsp;at the opening of the&nbsp;Amerindian heritage cultural extravaganza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOver the last five years, we&#8217;ve invested more than $41.7 billion in your villages and your communities. In the Amerindian Development Fund, we&#8217;ve invested $21.7 billion. Today you have not only village shops, you have sawmills, ecotourism facility, you have bus service, you have modern agriculture. You have every single facet of national development existing in your villages,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President acknowledged that, while the government has invested US$19.6 million in ICT infrastructure and brought high-speed connectivity to more than 250 hinterland villages, more must be done to bridge the digital divide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These ICT developments have directly benefited approximately 140,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<strong>We\u00a0are dissatisfied with the Digicel and the GTNT and all the other service providers. ENET and everyone. They have to make more investment in the hinterland. They have to invest more in the hinterland. They have to bridge the communication divide<\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ali emphasised the government\u2019s ongoing commitment to expanding opportunities and improving the quality of life for Amerindian\u00a0populations but\u00a0insists that private sector involvement remains crucial to achieving full digital inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by NaAsia Bristol Government has invested\u00a0more than $41.7 billion\u00a0in Amerindian villages and communities over the past five years,\u00a0supporting\u00a0infrastructure, agriculture, energy and community development. President&nbsp;Irfaan Ali made&nbsp;the disclosure&nbsp;when he&nbsp;addressed&nbsp;at the opening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,361,350],"tags":[488,1243,370,490,412,405],"class_list":["post-31743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amerindian-development","category-business-and-economy","category-news","tag-488","tag-amerindian-villages","tag-guyana","tag-hinterland","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743","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=31743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31748,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions\/31748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}