– Regional ChairmanRegional Chairman of Region 6, Zulfikar Mustapha,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, has revealed that over 40 per cent of works have been completed on the 25-mile stretch of the Black Bush Polder Road on the Corentyne. He indicated that the contractor, BK International, has been working on different parts of the road. The Johanna area has been completed as well as part of Lesbeholden.“They are working now from Lesbeholden to Mibikuri… doing the foundation work there. The part that they did not start any work yet is the Yakusari end, because they have to build some bridges there,” he revealed.The project is costing the government some US$6.6M.Ongoing works on the Black Bush Polder roadMustapha also told Kaieteur News that some changes were made to the scope of works,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, in that the road will be widened more and bridges which were supposed to be built by wood will now be built using concrete.The Chairman said that the farming area is already benefitting from the road works since there has been a significant rise in demands for land.“The land in Black Bush… you have more demands for land. People who left their housing area —they called it the homestead— those lands are selling very expensive. People are coming back and taking up their property,” he noted.Mustapha said that the famers will benefit from better farm-to-market roads. “You will have more transportation available. That will create a whole big thing for Black Bush Polder.” He revealed that he is in discussion with the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) to improve communications in the area.He also stated that the rent for rice fields along the roadside is now about $150,China Jerseys,000-$200,Cheap Jerseys For Sale,000 per plot,Discount NFL Jerseys, up from $50,Cheap NFL Jerseys,000- $75,000.In August, Bridges Engineer, Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Sunil Ganesh, had announced that the road contract would be extended to April 2012 since other works would be added to the contract, including the installation of 80 pipe culverts. He stated that the project commenced in September 2010, and whilst the contractor was executing works, it was observed that beneath the existing roadway there were wooden culverts which the farmers utilized to drain their rice fields.The wooden drainage systems were on the verge of collapse and would have also threatened the durability of the new road when completed, Ganesh had emphasized.The scope of the project involves the rehabilitation of the existing roadway with an asphalted concrete surface. The stretch will be widened to six metres to facilitate two lanes of traffic.The road in its current form cannot accommodate two lanes of traffic. If two vehicles were to traverse the road simultaneously one of them would have to use the shoulder of the road to give clearance to the other.