Extension works are impending for the Salem/Parika and La Bonne Intention (LBI) secondary schools but are unlikely to interrupt classes during the approaching school year.
This is according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon, who noted during a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday that the government has cleared the way for two contracts for the extensions of the two schools.
He said that Cabinet had given its “no objection” to a $44.02 million contract for the extension to the Salem/Parika Secondary School and a $40.76 million contract for the extension of the LBI Secondary school.
When quizzed on the effects that the extension works would have on students, Luncheon said, “I suspect that the school would continue conducting classes while the extension continues.” He explained that it has been a feature of “our preparations for extensions, to co-exist with the conduct of the teaching and classes during school year, so I want to believe that it would continue as before.”
Luncheon was unable to say to state how long the works are expected to last.
Meanwhile, Luncheon also announced that Cabinet also gave its no objection to several other contracts. In the Health sector, it cleared a $20. 2 million contract for electrical installation at the West Demerara Regional Hospital; in the security sector, a $24.4 million contract for the construction of a Coast Guard training school;; in the Natural Resources sector, an $18.4 million contract for the supply and delivery of office equipment for the Guyana Land and Survey Commission; in the Agriculture sector, a $22.7 million contract for emergency works dedicated to the rehabilitation of the Moleson Creek/Jackson Creek sluice in Region Six; in the Housing and Water sector, a $35.01 million contract for the construction of roads, drains, structures and installation of a pure water distribution network at the new Block ‘EE’ Eccles, Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara; and in the Public Works sector, a $41.6 M contract for the fabrication and installation of a hydraulic ramp retractor span for the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
