A drug bond is to be built at Paradise, East Coast Demerara with monies allocated in the 2017 budget for Region Four, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan said last evening even as he shrugged off remarks from the parliamentary opposition that this is nothing more than an attempted solution to the raging Sussex Street bond controversy.
Bulkan revealed that out of the $56.2 M allocated for “Buildings”, $7.6 M is to be spent to construct the bond which will “store small quantities of pharmaceuticals”. The minister provided this information in response to questions from opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira.
Teixeira after quoting the figure from the estimates asked whether this will be a pharmacy bond and also inquired about its size and the cost to have it built.