Phone service for remote communities
RURAL and hinterland communities too remote to access regular landline telephone services need not worry about being left out in the cold for much longer.

General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Ms. Sonita Jagan and Deputy GM Terry Holder at yesterday's news

A plan by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) is seeking to provide communities from Moleson Creek on the Corentyne to Annai in the Rupununi in the course of this year.

GT&T's General Manager Sonita Jagan yesterday listed what she said were the company's "first priority" communities:

Orealla, Moleson Creek, Mibicuri, Bush Lot, Mara, Esau and Jacob, Kuru Kuru, Soweyo, Muritura, Mabura, Kimbia/Ebini, Mahdia, Kurupukari, Hogg Island, Santa Rosa, Kabakaburi, Wakapau, Hosororo, Matthew's Ridge, Arakaka, Annai, and Sand Creek.

Included in the "second priority" communities are Baracara (Canje Creek), Mora Point, Long Creek, Silver Hill, St. Francis, Wineperu, Maria's Pleasure, Zeelandia, Hackney and Dadanawa.

Ms. Jagan told reporters at a news conference that each of the communities would be provided with a booth voice service, believing that will suffice until a more comprehensive programme is executed in those remote areas.