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Onverwagt farmers get $260M road upgrade
t Berbice residents have got a brand new road, compliments of Government of Guyana. Through the Ministry of Agriculture, over 60,000 acres of farm lands are now easily accessible. The residents and farmers are happy.
After years of dealing with the impassable Onverwagt public road and struggling to extract their produce from the back dams of the Onverwagt, West Berbice farming community, they have a brand new road and can travel the area with much ease, using whatever means of transportation they choose.
The contractor was H. Nauth and Sons Civil Engineering.
The contracting firm won a competitive bidding process to construct a 3.2 kilometer stretch of a 10-kilometer roads. This much was told to the media during a tour to the area on Tuesday last.
The contract was funded by the Government of Guyana with the supporting grant from the Caricom Development Fund.
It was for the upgrading of the access roads and bridges at Lot 4 Onverwagt, Region Five, West Coast Berbice.
According to an official from the Ministry of Agriculture, the decision was taken to pave the Onverwagt access road, because it is the main road that provides ingress and egress to approximately 60,000 acres of farm lands in the West Berbice area. Before the extensive work began on the roadway only the first 780 meters of the road was paved.
Apart from the thousands of residents and the hundreds of farmers (cattle and cash crop) that use the road the MMA Main Office and Workshop, the Hugo Chavez Rehabilitation Centre and a GPL substation are all along the paved stretch of road. Teachers and students of the No 28 School also use the access road.
In addition, five farms to market road (including one to the Abary River) are also linked to the Onverwagt main road at the main canal.
It is the first time that the road is being paved.
The existing roadway was made of bauxite capping, reef sand and mud, and when it rained it is impassable for anything to traverse the thoroughfare.
Consultant firm SRKN Engineering was satisfied with the job which it said was completed to specifications.
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