The Ministry of Public Health is still renting the controversial Sussex Street drug bond as it awaits the completion of a facility in Bartica to house a CT scan machine and the expansion of the Diamond, East Bank Demerara drug bond.
In September last year, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence had told this newspaper that the rental of the drug bond wasn’t expected to continue beyond the end of the year as the government was aiming to cease the use of all private bonds by that time.
Her pronouncements were made in the wake of mounting concern by the public and opposition parliamentarian Anil Nandlall, who had pointed out that despite a year passing after the controversy over the rental of the property, the contract was yet to be terminated and that monetary allocation was made for the rental of the bond for a full year again for 2018.
