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Asphalted Parika-Goshen Road coming this year

Mar 16, 2014 News

Construction of the Parika/Goshen Road as an alternative access to interior communities, particularly mining districts, is inevitable. It is hoped that this infrastructural development would open-up more mining districts and reduce travel time.
This is according to a senior official who said that Government recently advertised for companies to bid for the design and supervision of the Parika/Goshen Road better known as the East Bank Essequibo Road or the Del Conte Road. The deadline for submissions has not yet elapsed.
During the early 1960s there was an attempt to construct the East Bank Essequibo Road commencing from Parika going along the river to connect to Bartica. Government hopes to resuscitate this project.
According to the Ministry of the Natural Resources and the Environment, because this project was conceptualized a number of years ago and work was done in relation to a feasibility study, further analysis will be conducted during the consultancy aspect of the project.
This project will be undertaken by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment since the road is regarded as a mining road. It is being funded by the government. The executing agencies will be the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and the Ministry of Public Works.
Construction of this asphalted surface road should commence later this year once the design is completed.
Instead of depending solely on the Linden-Mabura Road to get into the interior, miners and commuters would be able to use the Parika/Goshen Road as the first leg of that journey.
In July 2012, when protestors effectively shutdown the mining Town of Linden, many mining operations in the interior suffered. Miners were unable to take cargo in and out of mining camps through the Linden-Mabura route. There were calls for Government to aggressively pursue constructing an alternative road access to the interior.
To reach mining camps safely and avoid the criminal elements that infringed the protest, miners accessed Bartica via the ferry from Bartica. This ignited earlier calls by miners in Regions Seven and Eight to have the road access.
According to the senior official, mining continues to play a significant role in Guyana’s development and is now the leading foreign exchange earner. While the sector is faced with a number of challenges, one of the key issues continues to be the inability of miners to access the various locations in the shortest and safest possible manner.
The Parika to Goshen Road which has been under consideration for many years offers an alternative to this issue. It would also result in the opening up of additional agricultural lands in Region Three.
The purpose of this intervention is to increase the productivity and competitiveness of Guyana’s extractive sector.
Mark Crawford, Region Eight Chairman, hopes that Government would take this project one step further to include the rehabilitation of the road linking Bartica and Mahdia. He said that the Parika to Goshen Road would benefit the Region Seven community which is also a mining district.
According to Crawford, during the colonial and People’s National Congress days, the Bartica to Mahdia roadway was existent and travel time was about six hours. Now, there is practically no roadway and a linkage between Region Eight and Region Seven is desirable.

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