Housing and Water Minister, Collin Croal has announced the government’s plan to invest over $100 billion over the next three years to meet the demand for housing for Guyanese through infrastructural development and home construction.
The minister was at the time delivering remarks at the launch of the International Building Expo at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
Areas to benefit include Kokerite Hill and Mabaruma in Region One; Onderneeming and Charity, Region Two; Anna Catherina, Edinburg, Stewartville, Meten -Meer- Zorg, Leonora, Wales, Parfaite Harmonie, Tuschen and Wales, Region Three, and Diamond, Grove, Eccles, Herstelling, Covent Garden, Perseverance, Prospect, Little and Great Diamonds, La Reconnaissance, Non Pariel, Mon Repos, Cummings Lodge, Sophia, Enmore, Foulis, Success, Ogle, LBI, Hope Lowlands, and Hope Estate in Region Four.
Areas in Region Five are: Bath, Hope, Experiment, Balthyock, and Burma; while in Region Six, Ordnance Fortlands, Kilcoy, Chesney, No. 75, No. 76, Hampshire, Williamsburg and Palmyra will benefit. The Region Seven areas are: Five Miles, Four Miles and Three Miles while Madhia, Region 8, and Poke Bridge Lethem, Culvert City and Tabatinga , Region Nine are slated to benefit in those regions. Amelia’s Ward, Phase 1B, Phase II, Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V, Wismar and Wisroc in Region 10 will also benefit.
“The rapidly evolving oil and gas sector has also brought its own unique demands for modern housing, particularly condominiums for which we passed new legislation…These works will begin to close the development gap between the coast and hinterland, and inject new life in others,” he stated.
The PPP/C Government’s national housing programme has seen thousands of Guyanese realising their dream of homeownership through the introduction of “bold and aggressive initiatives”, the minister said.
To date, close to 12,000 house lots were distributed in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Nine and 10, while 1200 units have been built in Regions Three, Four, Six and 10 – 300 of which have been handed over to the beneficiary families.
Additionally, Minister Croal announced that the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) will be handing over 5,000 more house lots during the course of the three- day expo, in Plantation Great Diamond and Grove Diamond, Meten – meer – Zorg, Stewartville, Non – Pariel and Enterprise. A number of land titles/transports will also be presented to persons.
The expo features over 300 local, regional and international companies in manufacturing, engineering, financing, construction, and other services.
