Jagdeo promises major agri expansion in Corentyne; new wharf a possibility 

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, promised a major expansion in agricultural production across the Corentyne should the party be re-elected after the September 1, 2025, polls.

“We intend to build the road from Moleson Creek to Orealla to open up more land and get all the lands into agriculture… open up about 100,000 acres of land right here, generating jobs, doing agro-processing, maybe building a wharf to ship right out of the Corentyne,” Jagdeo said on Friday night as he engaged Berbicians at a Corriverton rally.

Agriculture has been the main economic activity of Region Six (East Berbice- Corentyne). Over the past five years, the PPP government initiated plans to diversify the region and usher in new development through visible investments from new roads, improved healthcare facilities, and housing projects.

In the coming years, the government plans to make Berbice a new economic frontier with Guyana’s second gas-to-energy project, data centres, and a deepwater port. Plans are also underway to synchronise development here with neighbouring Suriname.

But Jagdeo said there will be no neglecting the agricultural sector.

He told the Berbicians, still reeling from the closure of several sugar estates under the former APNU+AFC government, that the government will continue to pump money into agriculture.

So he urged them to vote for the PPP/C, and vote early on polling day, so that nothing is left to chance.