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President announces reopening “Del Conte” road project.
President Donald Ramotar, has made a public announcement that Government has taken into consideration, anew, the “Del Conte” road project.
President Donald Ramotar
The project, which was initiated approximately 50 years ago, during the pre independence era, under the PPP administration and the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan as Premier, met with much criticism after it was abandoned, with minimal work completed.
During the 1960s, the administrations had made significant investments into the project which was named after a Venezuelan company that acquired the contract. The proposed road was to be constructed along the eastern bank of the Essequibo River linking Parika with Makouria, another community on the mainland some 45 miles up the Essequibo River.
Last Saturday, President Ramotar during his Independence Day address, said that Government is “keenly examining,” the prospects of reopening the Del Conte trail via road link between Parika and communities to Bartica, which is known as a gateway into the mining regions.
The Head of State also saw the road project as one that would make way for agricultural possibilities. Thousands of acres of new lands will be opened to cultivation.
“Farmers would increase food production and secure greater economic opportunities,” Ramotar said as he noted that the trail would provide a much needed road link to areas, in earlier times, only accessible by river.”
The President said the Del Conte trail is one of two possible “new agricultural frontiers” that Government was examining. The other is the Santa Fe rice and soya bean project in the Rupununi being run by the Barbadian family.
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