Gov’t to renew bid for approval of CJIA expansion funding – Benn

Excavation works taking place last week Monday on the path of the envisaged lengthened runway. (Photo courtesy of CJIA Corp.)

Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn says that there is a good chance that government re-tables the expenditure for the US$138 million expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA) at the very next sitting of the National Assembly and called on all sides to work to make this project a reality.

“Under supplementary papers there may be things coming back just now. There is a chance that some issues [connected to the airport expansion] may be coming to the House at the next sitting on December 12,” he said.

The opposition cut the entire sum proposed his year for the CJIA expansion during the