OM Custom Woodworking Guyana Incorporated opened a new woodworking facility at Hauraruni, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, celebrating craftmanship, creativity and innovation proudly built in Guyana.
This opening reflects the vision of President Dr. Irfaan Ali, and the commitment of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) to opening new frontiers, stimulating local enterprises and expanding opportunities for every Guyanese.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister Kwame McCoy recalled President Ali referring to the Soesdyke-Linden Highway as Guyana’s next major development corridor. He acknowledged that while some may have doubted this vision, the scale and pace of ongoing development along the highway clearly demonstrate that residents are experiencing the transformation in real time.
Minister McCoy stated, “This highway is no longer a sleepy stretch of road linking Georgetown to Linden; it is now a launchpad for agriculture, housing, tourism, manufacturing, logistics, health and education, all moving together, all feeding into one unstoppable national vision, all powered by our government that believes development must felt in every community.”
Minister McCoy related that OM Custom Woodworking is part of this vision, and commended Dr. Leroy Benons, Omande Marks, Gavin Agard, and the team behind this initiative who returned to Guyana’s shores to make investments happen.
According to the minister, already, some 30 persons have been employed in the lumber operation. With this new phase of value-added production, cabinetry, kitchens, vanities and other wood products, the team is adding more jobs, and introducing innovation through a state-of-the-art vacuum wood-drying kiln, purportedly the first of its kind in Guyana.
This facility, he explained, allows them to dry local wood to international standards, and to build products in Guyana that can compete anywhere in the world. Noting that this is “exactly the kind of transformation this government is encouraging, promoting, and delivering”, the minister affirmed, “This type of investment is the outcome of sound economic policy, investor confidence, infrastructural expansion, and a political party with a sound track record of responsible growth; that does not sit back and wait for development to fall into our laps but goes out and builds it, drives it, funds it, and empowers the private sector to be part of it.”
He underscored that thegovernment is building a country where no one is left behind, no village is forgotten, and no Guyanese is seen as too small to benefit from big opportunities.
“The Soesdyke-Linden Highway is becoming a zone of momentum; a hub of new possibilities, and with every new factory, every new home, every new business, there will be demand for transport, supplies, services, warehousing, construction, skilled labour, and we are making sure our people are ready to meet that demand, through education, through training, through grants, and through partnerships; because the future we are building is participatory,” he told attendees.