THE road between Belladrum and Paradise villages, West Coast Berbice, which leads to the Atlantic foreshore is to be upgraded and equipped with lights to enable easy access to a strip of beach there.

The area has been touted as an excellent tourism destination and recreational zone.

This pledge was made by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo during the opening of the Regional Agricultural and Commercial Exhibition (RACE) for Region Five at Paradise, last Friday.

Minister Nagamootoo made the pledge in response to a call for the upgrade of the road by the Region Five Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CIC), which had launched the beach as a tourism destination in 2015.

The call was made by CIC President Imran Sacoor during his address to visitors at the exhibition. Sacoor noted that the playground at Paradise had been fenced and equipped with floodlights at the request of residents.

He urged the residents to take proper care and make full use of the enhanced facility and pointed out that the playground was not the only attractive feature at Paradise. On that note, he said the excellent beach on the Atlantic foreshore is another unique feature.
According to Sacoor, the councillors of Profit/Foulis Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) have agreed that upgrading the roadway to the beach and equipping it with streetlights would go a far way in building Paradise into a tourism hot spot.
He then called on Prime Minister Nagamootoo to add to the gifts of Paradise by upgrading the roadway to the beach and equipping it with streetlights to provide easy access all year round.

Nagamootoo later in the evening said that he had discussed the matter with Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan, who was in attendance at the exhibition and has been assured that the project will become a reality.