$40M budgeted to re-equip, rebuild sections of DPP chambers

Government will be byfirebackinNovember2022. majority vote in the National physical works to the property web cameras, iPads, software, spending some $40M The figure was highlighted Assembly Responding to which was damaged by fire in vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, out of the $63 5M during the examination of the enquiriesintheNationalAssembly, 2021. routers, chairs, and cabinets among budgeted for the budget estimates for 2023 in the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Teixeirasaidthatmoniesareset others. She added that there will chambers of the Director of Public Committee of Supply in the andGovernanceGailTeixeiragave aside for the replacement of alsobetheinstallationofgrills,fire Prosecutions (DPP) to reequip the NationalAssemblyonMonday a breakdown of the sum saying that equipment which was also alarms, and smoke detectors, the office that was severely damaged The sum was approved by a over $40M of that money is for damaged by the fire. These include construction of a perimeter fence, concrete drains, main bridge, and a modernsecurityhut.

The fire, which started at the Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) Eve Leary, Georgetown on November 20, 2021 had completely gutted that building, before destroying sections of the facility that accommodates the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP).

Teixeira was at the time responding to questions by opposition Member of Parliament and Leader for the Alliance For Change (AFC) Party, Khemraj Ramjattan who had requested a disaggregation of the figure stated intheestimates.