Bartica targeted for more housing expansion
– greater access to water
BARTICA, in Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), has continued to witness incremental development over the years, both in the housing and water sector and even more expansion is targeted for the coming years.

Minister of Housing and Water, Mr. Irfaan Ali made this announcement during a recent interview with the Guyana Chronicle, giving an update on the scope of developmental works there.
According to Ali, due to the increase in population and the mining sector boom, there is a critical need for more houses and by extension, greater access to water.
He said: “The population has grown, there is a high consumption of water there, so we are presently looking at adding capacity to the Bartica Water Treatment Plant, by constructing a new well which has become necessary.”
Ali said this is fundamental to the expansion in the Four Miles to Five Miles area, where 500 lots will be added.
“We are now in the tendering process to have these lots added, the solution is to improve the capacity and that is what we are working on by having the new well,” he stated.
Minister Ali explained that continued expansion in the housing sector in Region 7, as in other Regions countrywide, is in keeping with the Administration’s drive of ensuring that each Guyanese attains his or her dream of home ownership and to also ensure that the basic social services are provided.
He said, over the past five years, thousands of residents have benefitted from the construction of roads and drains in several areas, including Four Miles, where between 2005 and 2006,  2,128 persons were beneficiaries of approximately 4.8 kilometres of roads, 9.6 kilometres of roadside drains, 10 drainage culverts and 137 metres of retaining wall.
For the period 2007-2008, 267 residents in the Secondary School Housing Scheme derived direct benefit from the construction of 460 metres of all weather roads with sand sealed surface.
In addition, during that same period, 1,030 metres of earthen drains were dug in the West Indian Housing Association, also in Region 7.