E-governance cable now set for completion this year

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon says that the US$32 million E-Governance project which includes the laying of a fibre optic cable from Brazil is on-going and will be completed sometime in 2014.

“Our intention was always 2012. That was unfortunately not met…2013 and we have now moved to 2014,” said Luncheon at his post-Cabinet press briefing held yesterday. The fibre optic project was one of the ‘must have’ projects former President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo hyped during the months in the run up to the 2011 general elections. Dr. Luncheon’s update breaks months of silence from Government on the status of the project. Stabroek News had recently approached E-Governance