Development in constituency 14

─ Youth mentorship, health, security, and infrastructural development are priority areas

By Kipenie Jordan

DPI, Guyana, Friday, May 31, 2019

Youth mentorship, health, security, and infrastructural development are a high priority for Denroy Tudor, Councillor of Constituency 14, Ruimveldt Industrial Estate – South Ruimveldt Gardens. Tudor explained that since he took office, a community office has been opened to deal with the aforementioned areas.

“At the community centre, we are training young people, to learn various trades, because we have realised that the community is so much more than just drainage and defective lighting, we are looking at the social aspect,” he stated

Coupled with vocational skills training and the establishment of an ICT hub, the constituency representative explained that the idea is for extra-curricular activities, such as book clubs, sport clubs, music and dance classes, to be explored as a way of helping youths to be more active in their community.

On the issue of security, Tudor said, as a former member of the South Ruimveldt Gardens Community Development, and Policing Society, he was able to share how security issues can be dealt with.

“We endeavour to meet with the commander of ‘A’ division and more so the sub-divisional commander. We are looking to develop a similar sort of programme, within the constituency so that persons feel a bit more secure.”

Other projects to be undertaken by Tudor and his team are the installation of 100 lights throughout the constituency paying specific attention to the lighting of Caneview Avenue and the erection of a bridge between South Ruimveldt Gardens and Roxanne Burnham Gardens.

He also anticipates the rebuilding and renaming of the Festival City Health Centre to the Diagnostic Centre, which will offer more services, thereby preventing the surge of patients from South Ruimveldt to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC).

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