A $15.2M secondary school is on the cards for the Region One village of Waramuri at Moruca.

This announcement was made by Cabinet Secretary Joseph Harmon on Thursday, during a post-Cabinet media briefing, where he said that the contract has been awarded to Sattaur Mohammed and Son construction and Hardware Supplies.
It was noted that the project will benefit the village which has a total of 200 households and according to Harmon, 265 students from the area will benefit from the new institution.
Secondary school students from Waramuri and neighbouring villages usually travel some 25 miles to the Santa Rosa Secondary School located farther inland at Moruca.
Meanwhile, in other contracts which have been green-lighted by Cabinet, Harmon announced that a bridge at Tabatinga in Region Nine, near the border town of Lethem will be renovated at a cost of $ 18.1M. The solid concrete bridge will benefit the residents of Tabatinga in their travels to and from Lethem.
In Region One, a reinforced concrete bridge at Arocuro in the Wauna/White Water area in the Mabaruma Sub-Region was also green-lighted by Cabinet. The bridge which will be built at a cost of $16.3M will be constructed by Builders Hardware and General Supplies.
Harmon announced that under the government’s HEYS programme, a total of $168M has been given the green light to enable the Ministry of Indigenous People’s Affairs to pay facilitators in the 10 administrative regions a monthly stipend of $65,000. The monies will cover the stipends for the period May-December, 2016.
The government has also permitted a $181.7M contract for the supply of juice to the Ministry of Education by Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL).