Cabinet OKs contracts for NDIA, Amerindian communities

Cabinet at its statutory meeting on Tuesday offered its no objection to six contracts in the areas of agriculture, education, security and hinterland and infrastructural development, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon said Thursday.

According to a Govern-ment Information Agency release, Dr. Luncheon  told a post-Cabinet media briefing that the approved contracts are for Drainage and Irrigation (D&I) regarding the supply of spare parts for a Kobelco hydraulic excavator for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to the value of $21.8M;