The Committee of Supply last Thursday approved requests by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Business to access supplementary funds amounting to a total of $927 million for works to mitigate flooding and infrastructural works at the Lethem Industrial Estate.
Among the requests by the Ministry of Agriculture, which were detailed in the Schedule for Financial Paper 2, was a sum of $350 million for the Flood Risk Management Project.
According to the schedule, the $650 million allocated in the 2017 budget was for the construction of dams, rehabilitation of irrigation structures, construction of pump stations, supervision services,
