Gov’t to seek $100M for City Hall renovations

Roger Luncheon
Roger Luncheon
Roger Luncheon

A supplementary allocation of $100M for City Hall’s renovation will be sought by government when the National Assembly reconvenes.

“City Hall got a new lease on life when Cabinet, at its most recent meeting…, pledged to provide $100 million Guyana dollars for urgent renovation works,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Roger Luncheon announced yesterday.

Luncheon lamented on the state of the decrepit wooden landmark, while noting that currently estimates for the project were being undertaken.

Acting Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker told Stabroek News that he could not give a date for when the works will commence but said that Cabinet stressed that it should be urgently addressed.

“We did agree that it should be urgently addressed but we have to go to Parliament for