MINISTER of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr, delivered on another promise made to the community of Agricola with regard to helping to upgrade the Evans Phillips Park playfield.

On his first visit to the East Bank Demerara community in October 2020, Ramson had met with residents on their needs and wants for the area and one of the concerns raised was their playfield.

The minister was told of their previous efforts to secure funds to construct bleachers, water to the washroom facility and some additional work on the playfield and how it fell on deaf ears.
While Minister Ramson returned to inspect work on other projects, mainly the cleaning exercise, he told residents that following the passage of the National Budget, funds will be released to help in executing work on the playfield and noted that all the labour will come from the skilled persons in the Agricola area.

Yesterday, Ramson returned to the community, this time to get a first-hand look at the bleachers being built on the playfield. The washroom facility that was without water since it was built some time ago, was now flowing, thanks to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI).

Minister Ramson told residents that next up, there will be some adjustments to the lights and other electrical work that they had previously highlighted. He noted, however, the time for work to be done and completed will depend on how soon after his request to the Guyana Power and Light can be facilitated by the company.

The residents were told by Minister Ramson, that he’s looking forward to working not only with them, but all communities across Guyana, since it was President Dr Irfaan Ali’s mantra that every community must benefit from his administration’s continuous push to advance their livelihood.

Residents were also given hampers as part of the Government of Guyana COVID-19 relief initiative which is ongoing countrywide.
Meanwhile, Minister Ramson also spent some time interacting with the scores of children from the Agricola community that came out to the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) outreach programme.

The programme catered to children 8–17 years and was facilitated by Mark Harper, Roderick Lovell and Jermaine Neblette.