Monitoring unit being set up for Amaila hydro project

A monitoring secretariat is being established by the government to monitor and execute the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project and it will be based at the Office of the President, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.

Luncheon, at a post-Cabinet press briefing, said that the secretariat will be chaired by President Donald Ramotar, with administrative support provided by the government holding company, the National Investment and Commercial Guyana Limited (NICIL), and the involvement of the major domestic players.

He listed the major domestic players as the Environ-mental Protection Agency (EPA), the