Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson yesterday said that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project is on course to meet its December, 2017 deadline and while this year’s budget allocation for the works is nearly exhausted, the government will soon access the remainder to facilitate the completion.
“In relation to financing, it is no secret, because it will come out here, we have nearly expended the amounts of money allocated in 2017,” Patterson yesterday told the press during a site visit.
Patterson was at the time giving an update on current state of works for the US$150M airport modernization project. He said that while 2017 allocation has been nearly depleted, taking the aggregated total spent so far to about $79M of the total, government can and will approach the Exim Bank of China to release the remainder sums to complete the project.
