📋 Tender Overview
As part of the governments plans to promote connectivity across the country a number of Information Communication Technology ICT hubs have already been constructed under the Office of the Prime Ministers Project Management Unit.Toka an Amerindian village in Region Nine Upper TakutuUpper Essequibo is one such community to benefit from this project.Deputy Toshao Delano Davis in an interview with DPI said the ICT hub in the village is now completed.He said the village received 5 million COVID-19 relief cash grant. Of that sum 1 million was expended towards rehabilitation and furnishing of a building for the initiative.We already had a building so we painted over the building we tiled it over put in lights and so and we have the furniture for the computers. At the moment as we talk the equipment are now coming into the center. The government is now starting to furnish it with the computers and the solar power Davis related.Meanwhile he outlined a number of projects that are currently being undertaken in the village.He said the village will be expanding its tourism sector to improve the village economy.One of our main projects is that we are embarking on tourism we are going into tourism but at the moment we are fixing the sites furnishing buildings with beds and lights and solar systems and those kinds of things he said.He added that the community is also heading into developing its agriculture sector by adding aquaculture to their farming practices.Other projects approved for the village include cattle rearing the construction of a bakery and a multi-purpose building.
