Major infrastructure works are expected this year, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said yesterday in defence of the government’s $94.4 billion allocation to her sector.
Addressing the National Assembly during the second day of the budget debate, Manickchand said the allocated sum paves the way for the construction and rehabilitation of new and existing schools, works on dormitories, and the construction of teachers’ quarters, among others.
In every region, she explained, infrastructural works will be undertaken with new schools being constructed at Hosororo, and Kwebanna, in Region One; Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo and West Bank Demerara; Orealla Corentyne; and Jawalla, Upper Mazaruni. This year’s budgetary allocation, she added, will see the reconstruction of the schools that were destroy-ed by fire and the completion of the Yarrowkabra and Good Hope Secondary Schools. She pointed out too that dormitories will be upgraded and constructed at Paramakatoi and Kopinag in regions Eight and Nine respectively.