Cabinet gives green light for $379.6M in contracts

Cabinet recently gave the green light for contracts totalling approximately $379.6M for works to be undertaken in the Agriculture, Housing and Water, Home Affairs and Public Works Ministries.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon made this disclosure following a meeting of the Cabinet on February 16 at the Office of the President, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA).

In the works sector, lighting of the East Coast Demerara Railway Embankment road between Sheriff Street and Ogle airstrip road is estimated to cost $12.74M, and lighting of the East Bank Demerara Highway from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to the Timehri Police Station should cost $10.77M. Rehabilitation of the Ogle Aerodrome access road from the East Coast Demerara embankment to the Aerodrome is to cost $46.5M.

In the agriculture sector, supply of equipment for pesticides and toxic chemicals (Agricultural Support Services Programme) would cost some $53.75M.

And rehabilitation of 10 pontoons for the Demerara Harbour Bridge is estimated at $45M, while the Poor Rural Communities Support Services Programme dealing with construction of a packaging and storage facility at Parika, East Bank Essequibo, Region Three should cost $88.7M.

Meantime, in the water sector, drilling of three new wells at Lima, Essequibo, Region Two, Vergenoegen, Region Three, and Cotton Tree, Region Five has been estimated at $98.99M

At the Home Affairs Ministry, the supply of stationery, dietary, agricultural and miscellaneous items and building requirements for the Guyana Prison Service for a three-month period should cost $24.37M, GINA stated.