THE newly-commissioned pump station at Lima is expected to not only significantly improve drainage and irrigation in parts of the Essequibo Coast, but to also address the incidence of flooding.

“It’s a good day for Essequibo,” declared Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Monday January 4 at the commissioning of the $191M pump.
Besides the PM, among those at the commissioning were Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder; National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA)’s Fredrick Flatts; Region Two Chairman, Devanand Ramdatt; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, George Jervis; and other senior NDIA and Ministry of Agriculture officials.
During his address at the ceremony, the PM reminded Essequibians of the importance of agriculture to both the economy and the country’s development,
but he also sought to establish that Essequibo was not just about rice, but also about cash-crop farming and other activities not necessarily related to agriculture.
Minister Holder explained that the reason the pump station was placed at Lima, was because the village has the largest acreage of land.