Chairman of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) Board Ramesh Dookhoo says the airport modernisation project will continue from an allocation of US$20 million ‘mobilisation advance’ made under the 2012 national budget but is unable to say how far that amount will carry the US$138 million project.
Speaking to the Stabroek News yesterday, Dookhoo said the project is still in the design phase. He said the mechanisms are now being worked out for sand mining by the Chinese contractor China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC). “We are trying to legalise a spot where the contractor will pick up sand to be used for the project,” Dookhoo explained.
CEO of CJIA Ramesh Ghir said yesterday that the work has started on the airport but declined to say how much of the financing received has
