The fate of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion is in limbo as it is unclear where government will find the resources to continue the project in the wake of the 2013 budgetary cuts by the opposition. However, a sum of US$20 million had earlier been advanced to the contractor China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) for mobilisation and this continues.
Minister of Works Robeson Benn had told this newspaper that the government would hold meetings to try and persuade the opposition to support the projects and approve the allocations in the amount of $5 billion in the National Assembly.
Benn said that the contractor is already on the ground and mobilising on the
