New hospital, more housing schemes for Soesdyke-Linden Highway – Pres. Ali – INews Guyana
President Dr Irfaan Ali has announced the construction of a new hospital along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway to improve access to healthcare services for the thousands of citizens who reside along the corridor.
He made the announcement on Thursday during a public meeting hosted by Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) at Kuru Kururu.
He noted that the new health facility, to be situated in Silica City, will create thousands of jobs for residents in the area.
“Already, we have investors for Silica City, who will be building an international hospital that will…provide services for health tourism, medical tourism,” the president revealed.
Silica City, a brainchild of President Ali, will be Guyana’s first technologically advanced city and is designed to accommodate more than 15,000 families.
Additionally, the President said in order to build value along the highway, the government must remove the ad hoc type of development that is taking place there.
“We have to have more structured development where you can have proper roads, you can have treated waters, street lights, schools, health centers and you can have all the amenities of a modern, urban planning area. That is what we want to invest in,” he said.
In this regard, he announced plans to open up more land along the highway.
“In the next five years, in every single one of your community on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, we will be building housing schemes with proper infrastructure so that you can have not only a home but you can have a home in which you can realise the value for that home, in which that asset can give you access to liquidity so that you can take your lease or your land title to the bank and you can get a loan for $20-$30-$40 million and you can invest that in a business so that you build prosperity in your home, in your community,” Ali told the gathering.
Additionally, he said the tourism sector along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway will see massive investment over the next five years.
“Already, we have major project proposals for resorts and hotels to be built on the Linden- Soesdyke Highway.”
He noted that soon a new hotel will be opened at Timheri and some 1500 jobs will become available.
“Then we have already finalising a contract to be signed very soon for the building of the second terminal at the Timheri International Airport. That is a second terminal that will create more jobs. Where are the people going to come from? Right here on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.”
According to President Ali, the PPP has a development plan that is going to bring prosperity for everyone.
“A development plan that is going to improve your life and your living conditions,” he emphasised.
The President also announced the opening up of lands for loggers.
“We will be building the Sand Hill to Timehri road link that is going to open up hundreds of thousands of acres of new land for those in forestry, those in sand mining, those in agriculture and for residential and housing development. These are investments that we are going to make as a government to ensure that every single Guyanese not only own a plot of land, but that every single Guyanese can maximise the benefit of that land, whether you are a farmer, whether you are in forestry, whether it is for your home construction, we want to maximise the benefit of that land,” President Ali assured.
