Lethem road may be paved with loan from Brazil

Guyana and Brazil are currently looking at setting up a joint technical team to assess the road from Lethem to Linden in preparation for paving it through a loan financed by Brazil.

This initiative follows bilateral talks between President Bharrat Jagdeo and Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during last Saturday’s Rio Summit held at Turkeyen, Greater George-town.

At the opening of the Annual Officers Conference of the Guyana Defence Force on Thursday, Jagdeo had said the Brazilians “