THE Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Cuyuni Mazaruni (Region Seven) is expected to roll out several infrastructural projects in the region over the next couple of months.

With maintenance of roads and bridges at the top of the agenda, a sum exceeding $66M is said to have been allocated from the RDC fund to complete the projects.

The Regional Information Officer, Alden Marslowe, told the Guyana Chronicle that the projects are stretched out for various parts of the region. In Bartica, he said, rehabilitation works to roadways, will continue with $5M set aside for the Agatash Access Road, $6M for the maintenance of Ninth Street, $5.5M for Caribese Hill Road, $10.5M for Old Housing Scheme and Mongrippa Roads, and $4.8M for maintenance of Kalacoon Access Road.
These projects would have started in the latter part of 2018, but will continue and are expected to be completed by mid-2019.

Marslowe also said that roads in the Upper Mazaruni will also be rehabilitated in this set of infrastructural development works, including the Kako to Waramadong Road and the Kamarang to Waramadong Road. A total of $21.5M has been allocated to complete these.

Additionally, in the Upper Mazaruni, a number of bridges will also be rehabilitated, with works already started on most of them, including the Heavy Duty Bridges #4 and #5 between Kamarang and Waramadong, and one bridge along the Kalacoon Access Road at Bartica. A combined sum of $13.3M will be expended, Marslowe confirmed.
Along with the road and bridge projects to be executed, a number of other works are already being carried out in the region, specifically in the town of Bartica. These works include the construction of river defence in Byderabo, the maintenance of buildings among others.

In a Guyana Chronicle article late last year, the Region’s overseer, Andrew Chandler, shared that contractors are working on a trail from Waramadong leading to Kako. Chandler explained that they are trying to link the communities by road since many students from Kako, travel to Waramadong for schooling.

“What they usually do is travel from Kako to Kamarang by river and that usually takes about half an hour and then it’s another hour to get from Kamarang to the Waramadong complex. The construction of the road to link Kako with Waramadong, will shorten their daily journey to school,” he said. In addition to that, they have been maintaining drains, cleaning creeks and patching roads across the Region, the overseer said. They have also done maintenance of the river defence at sections of the Bartica Beach. Those infrastructural works are still on-going.

Cuyuni Mazaruni is the second largest administrative region in Guyana, and probably the richest in natural resources.