Georgetown: Residents of Region Nine are set to benefit from better delivery of services following the commissioning of three key projects by Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud recently. The projects were all executed under the region’s 2013 capital budget.
Minister Persaud commissioned a six- apartment building in Lethem, which will provide housing for health staff. The building which was initially a nursery school and later used as a storage bond was converted to the apartment building at the cost of $8.9M
Commissioned also, in Lethem, was the newly constructed conference room of the Amerindian Hostel. The bottom flat enclosure costing $4.5M, in addition to its use for conferences will be utilised for training workshops and for meetings by Amerindian Toshaos visiting Lethem.
A fence constructed at the cost of $1.6M at the Arapaima Primary School was also commissioned.
Also present at the commissioning were Permanent Secretary Collin Croal, Regional Chairman (RC) Wilson Lorentio and Regional Executive Officer (REO), Claire Singh.
Whilst in Region Nine, Minister Persaud also checked on the progress of several on-going education programmes being executed in the region under the 2013 budget. These include the rehabilitation of the St Ignatius Secondary School science laboratory, and plant nursery and the Arapaima Nursery School sanitary block, the latter is 95 percent completed.
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