After years of pleading by residents for work to be done on the East Bank Berbice main access road, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, yesterday announced that the project will commence today.
He said that the project will be done in phases, noting that phase one should begin today and be completed in eight months’ time. He made the announcement to residents at Overwinning, Market Square, East Bank Berbice. According to Patterson, initially when they were in talks with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to fund the project it was estimated to cost some $1.8B. However, he said that after they did not receive the necessary support from the IDB due to many reasons, he took it upon himself to work out a lower cost and pleaded with the Ministry of Finance for funding. The project now costs some $1.2B and is being funded by the Government of Guyana.
He told those gathered that the project will commence at Stanleytown and
