The people come first in infrastructure planning

Robeson Benn

Works Minister Robeson Benn says communities with schools, religious buildings and community centres will always receive priority for road upgrades.

“The Guyanese people come first,” Benn told the National Assembly last Friday afternoon as he made his contribution to the ongoing budget debates.

APNU MP Annette Ferguson, during her presentation, had also lamented the state of roads and bridges countrywide and urged that a people-focused policy is put in place for physical infrastructure transformation.

“Public infrastructure must serve the people and the people must be the centre of it and not that the people must serve