Government’s plan to establish a specialist hospital at Liliendaal, on the East Coast of Demerara, has raised questions as to why local hospitals were not seemingly considered for upgrades instead and why taxpayers’ money is being used to prepare the site.
Georgetown City Mayor Hamilton Green, in a recent letter to this newspaper, raised concerns that earlier announcements made by former President Bharrat Jagdeo seemed inconsistent from those made recently by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon on the hospital.
Luncheon had said at the last post-Cabinet news briefing that $97M had been approved for preparation of the land to