Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has indicated that it will cost taxpayers over $1 billion to transform the Ocean View Hotel and Conference Centre into a specialised care facility for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients.
“To retrofit and outfit it will be more than a billion [and this] excludes running cost,” Jordan said yesterday during an interview with the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Asked if the cost included a purchase price, Jordan said that was a “different matter which can’t be dealt with at this time.”
