Georgetown : President Donald Ramotar, accompanied by Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, visited a number of on-going government projects, which all have the aim of continuing the transformation of the East Bank into a thriving residential, business and educational hub. The President visited the ‘Turnkey 1000 Homes’ project at the new Perseverance Housing Scheme, located directly behind the Guyana National Stadium, which is moving apace and is creating employment for close to 500 persons, who are employed in the construction of two and three-bedroom houses that will be sold at $4.9M and $9M to qualifying beneficiaries. As Government moved to construct the housing areas for Guyanese, emphasis has also been focused on putting in the social support infrastructure. Minister Ali explained that where historically the ministry has relied on the Guyana Power and Light for planting poles and putting in wires to facilitate power to houses, the ministry has taken on this and in fact as soon as the houses are completed, wiring is facilitated. The team also visited one of the several secondary roads that are being constructed among the housing schemes on the East Bank to assist with the vast volume of traffic emerging out of the massive development taking place along the corridor. President Ramotar noted that they are good all-weather roads that will accommodate the future development and expansion of the new East Bank housing schemes, in a more structured way. About 10 of these secondary roads are being constructed on the East Bank to facilitate the movement of traffic between the East Coast and East Bank. They also have the goal of linking Ogle to Providence.
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