A Government Information Agency (GINA) report said the DCNC was allocated $60M for four villages that were identified as beneficiaries - Buxton and Non Pariel/Enterprise on East Coast Demerara and Met-en-Meerzorg and De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara.

GINA said the fund was equally divided and each of the four was allotted $15M for road construction, drainage and irrigation and electricity.

The Buxton/Foulis schemes were undertaken on the basis of residents' preferences and those completed include:

** the desilting of all street drains within the community by manual labour, which improved drainage for the benefit of 15,000 residents and provided employment for 50 shovel men;

** the installation of 24 tube culverts within the area, which will discharge the street drains into the main drainage canal;

** the cleaning, excavating, building and shaping of 400 rods of Crown Dam, which would provide irrigation water and access to farm lands for about 400 farmers;

** the procurement and installation of three irrigation tubes below Crown Dam, to put irrigation water in the Buxton and Friendship 'middle walks' and in Buxton/Friendship Company Path canal to irrigate about 2,000 acres of farmland;

** the desilting of the Company Path trench between Buxton and Friendship, facilitating transport of farmers' produce and provide drainage and irrigation for farms;

** the desilting of the Buxton and Friendship 'middle walk' canals to provide drainage and irrigation for farms stretching over two miles;

** the clearing of 200 acres of new farmland to make more available for cultivation and

** the construction of an intake koker at Buxton/Friendship Crown Dam to ensure irrigation from the 'middle walks' at Buxton and Friendship.

The Non Pariel/Enterprise undertaking was for the provision of electricity for Block 12 and some 500 households are now receiving supply.

A similar project was executed in the De Kinderen area and about 400 householders in the Housing Scheme and Squatting Area are beneficiaries.

But the upgrading of 'Teacher Norma Road' to give improved access to about 300 residents is still in progress and will be finished shortly, GINA said.

At Met-en-Meerzorg, about 800 houses at Railway View and Ocean Garden are getting electricity and the construction of three foot bridges in Prem Nagar, providing better and safer access for the community in general and for the nursery and primary school children, in particular, as well as another at Chateau Land, to facilitate people from 33 households, crossing the trench from East to West, have also been accomplished.