Critical Infrastructure

The collapse of this country’s infrastructure under the incompetent rule of the ALP presented the United Progressive Party with formidable challenges in 2004. The UPP’s repair and rebuilding of our collapsing economy and infrastructure have been widely applauded.

We are committed to maintenance, upgrade and expansion of essential infrastructure through:

• Continuing the Road Construction Programme in urban and rural areas. The entire national road network will be modernized.
• Major reconstruction of the V C Bird International Airport
• The upgrade and expansion of the main seaport to increase capacity and enhance efficiency in the processing and delivery of imports
• Restructuring APUA to bring it in line with modern best practices as a utilities authority, organized as an innovative and efficient business enterprise
• Introduction of a system of renewable and sustainable energy-generation in Barbuda to provide the entire island community with clean, renewable energy sources, such as wind turbines and solar cells
• Completion of a US$8 million water infrastructure development programme which will include the replacement and expansion of water mains, the construction of new storage tanks and the installation of reverse osmosis plants in Fryes Estate and in Barbuda
• Equipping APUA with the capacity to meet the country’s current electricity needs when the new equipment acquired through collaboration with the People’s Republic of China is commissioned.