Georgetown: Residents of Kaneville would soon benefit from improved roads in their community. Currently, construction works are ongoing to rehabilitate Second Street and the Main Cross Street in Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.
This project, which is being funded by the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Caribbean Development Bank, when completed is expected to directly benefit approximately 4,500 residents.
The Ministry of Communities through the Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP) recently inked a $68M contract with H. Nauth & Sons to rehabilitate the roadways. The signing ceremony, which was held at CRIP’s Boardroom, Camp Street, was attended by Charles Ceres, Advisor to the Minister (Department for Housing and Water); Karen Roopchand, CRIP’s Project Coordinator; Tejwattie Roopchand, Engineer; and Kiran Nauth and Julian Archer of H. Nauth & Sons.
Whilst offering congratulations to the contractor, Ceres emphasized that Government will be strictly monitoring projects to ensure high quality standard works are achieved. As such, mechanisms will be put in place to monitor quality control of works being executed under this project.
CRIP expects the contractor to deliver quality works and maintain the contract duration, since no time extension would be granted to the project, Roopchand stated. She looks forward to the successful completion of the roads so that residents could benefit from improved access.
Nauth expressed thanks to the Ministry and assured that he will be working to maintain the two-month contract duration of the project.
All projects executed by CRIP are done with involvement by the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) and residents. Roopchand emphasized that community meetings will be done between CRIP and relevant stakeholders.
CRIP has submitted unpriced Bill of Quantities to the Golden Grove/ Diamond Place Neighbourhood Democratic Council and the Regional Democratic Council so that residents would have more access to information. Additionally, the Project Management Unit, the contractor and representatives of CEMCO in association with SRKN Engineering, the supervising consultancy firm, met with residents to inform them about the project.
Through CRIP over 300 roads in Regions Three, Four, Five and Six were constructed and rehabilitated. These roads have helped to improve the quality of life of residents by creating greater access to schools, health facilitates, markets, place of worship and place of work.
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