Residents of Jacklow Village in the Lower Pomeroon will have Internet access in and around their community before the end of September 2019, a release from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications said yesterday.
The primary school will be connected and residents will be able to access e-Government services for the first time via satellite, the release added.
This was promised to them by of Public Telecommunications Minister, Catherine Hughes, during a community meeting at the Jacklow Primary School on July 28. According to the schedule compiled by the National Data Management Authority’s eGovernment Unit, the satellite dish that was installed recently in Jacklow will go live in August. Hughes gave a commitment that soon thereafter, she would return to deliver computer tablets for students to use, the release said.
“The computers will be of immense help to all the students, and my Ministry’s Training Department will come back and hold Computer Literacy classes for anyone in this community,” she assured them.
“When you are able to connect to the Internet, it means that you will not have to travel up the river to Charity, or go all the way to Georgetown to conduct your business with the NIS, the GRA or the Passport office. You will be able to talk to family and friends on the Internet anywhere, whether they are in Guyana or not”, she asserted.
Jacklow is one of seven communities along the Pomeroon River soon to benefit from Internet connectivity via satellite dishes. The release said that the dishes were installed in recent months in Kabakaburi, Sirikki, Saint Nicholas Mission, Jacklow, St. Monica’s, Karawab and Akawini. They will all be activated before September.
