THE Government, with funding from the European Union (EU) is spending 13, 588,804 euros, under the ninth European Development Fund (EDF), on the reconstruction of 1.5 kilometres and rehabilitation/maintenance of 18 kilometres of sea defence in different parts of Guyana. Supervisor of the Essequibo Coast project, Mr. Emile Isaacs, said it is divided into two lots, his include West Coast Demerara and the other Berbice and Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara.
He said the sites on the Essequibo Coast are between Aurora in the South and Eliza to the North.
The contractor is B.K. International and Egis Becom International is supervising for the Ministry of Public Works and the Government.
Isaacs said work at the Aurora end is 100 per cent complete while the Onderneeming/Suddie section is 98 per cent done.
He said, at Johanna Cecelia, an eastern sea dam embankment is still to be built but the rest is also 98 per cent finished.
Isaacs said, at Zorg, the job is only 50 per cent complete, at Lima 10 per cent and mobilisation is in progress at Devonshire Castle, also on the Essequibo Coast.
All the works started in November 2009 and are scheduled for completion in October, this year.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Region Two, Mr. Alli Baksh did inspections at Lima and Devonshire Castle on Thursday and remarked that Government is expending billions of dollars to construct and rehabilitate sea defence structures along the coastline of Guyana.
He recalled that one of the biggest projects undertaken, between Columbia and Capoey, on the Essequibo Coast, too, was, successfully, accomplished by BK International a few years ago.