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Georgetown being transformed VAT INCLUSIVE
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–– with billions of dollars in infrastructural works undertaken by Central Government
BILLIONS of dollars worth of infrastructural improvements to roadways are currently being undertaken by the government through the Ministry of Public Works in the Capital City, Georgetown. Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill on Thursday inspected the projects that are under construction in various parts of the city. These include the Kingston Seawall Beauti-
fication Project, Independence Boulevard, construction of the ‘Safe Space’ along the Lamaha Corridor, a four-lane carriageway at Cemetery Road and road works at Delhi Street, Prashad Nagar. Minister Edghill informed the Department of Public Information (DPI) that those are rollover projects from last year, and the ministry is ensuring they are implemented at an accelerated
pace, to benefit citizens. Meanwhile, construction of the 1,800 metres Independence Boulevard at Albouystown is progressing at an accelerated pace. Some $1.5 billion is being expended towards this project as well as Cemetery Road. He said: “All three lots are progressing. The remaining encumbrances that are preventing them from working, most of them are
being resolved as we speak. There’s full cooperation, that is being given to the ministry and to the contractors and that might be something that needs to be said because sometimes people only like to hear the storms, they don’t like to hear the quiet but things are happening.”
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