Infrastructure

The Demerara Harbour Bridge would be completed next year, despite a shift in the original deadline, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said in contrast to the opposition Alliance For Change’s (AFC’s) claim that the new east-west corridor would not be ready until 2026. Mr Edghill told Demerara Waves Online News that the new US$260 million bridge is expected to be ...

As part of the government’s drive to ensure engineers executing public works are held accountable, the Engineer’s Bill will soon be tabled in the National Assembly, government’s Department of Public Information reported on Sunday. Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill, made the disclosure during a workshop at the Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown, on Thursday. “Very soon, I’ll be ...

The Ministry of Public Works on Wednesday activated emergency teams for the restoration of the Linden-Lethem corridor, after a section of that earthen interior artery collapsed and washed away. “Contractors and materials are en route to the affected area,” the Public Works Ministry said. That government ministry said there was significant disruption along the Kurupukari–Lethem corridor at approximately 3:40 p.m. ...

The contractor that is rehabilitating Cemetery Road, Georgetown could be fired next month if he does not complete the more than one-year long works on that north-south thoroughfare, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said Friday. “The contractor has received a revised deadline of January 2024 to complete this road and I could say here that if January end comes and ...

President Irfaan Ali has said that Guyana is running out of large acreages of land on the coastal strip. Speaking at the recently held Guyana-Canada Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Awards, he said, “the reality is that we don’t have that land now on the coast.” He said he asked for pictures of new developments asked for pictures of the ...

The major thoroughfare, Red Road, at Providence, East Bank Demerara on Thursday bulged and cracked, forcing vehicular and to avoid that artery altogether, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said. As a result of the “unusual” occurrence, he said traffic on Red Road would be restricted from the Providence Public Road to Massy’s supermarket. He told reporters that engineers believed that ...

The design of the new Demerara River Bridge is yet to be approved, a Ministry of Public Works Engineer told a stakeholder meeting primarily with nearby East Bank Demerara residents who complained bitterly that they did not get proper answers to their questions. Engineer Siddiq Khan told the consultation at the Peter’s Hall Primary School that government was getting ongoing ...

The Guyana government and one of India’s leading engineering companies on Wednesday inked a US$155.99 million contract to provide to provide Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) services for  transmission lines and substations for the Natural Gas Liquids plant and the 300 megawatt natural gas power plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara, the Indian High Commission said. The deal was inked ...

The European Union (EU) is providing a new model of infrastructure pr0ject financing to Guyana and other Caribbean and Latin American countries that will see the bloc continuing to provide grants with the expectation that international and regional financial institutions will inject massive amounts of cash for larger projects, EU Ambassador to Guyana René van Nes said Thursday. “This is ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 10, 2023: The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Monday announced it has approved a US$76.2 million loan to the Government of Guyana for the Guyana Water Supply Improvement Project under which the water supply systems serving five coastal communities will undergo major upgrades. The infrastructure development initiative involves the construction of five water treatment plants, complete with ...