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176.
Development works continued at the Nursing and Allied Health Facility at El
Dorado, a contract in the amount of $2.2 million was awarded for the construction of car
park facility. Other activities undertaken include upgrade works on the multi-purpose
courts which is seventy-five per cent (75%) complete, and electrical upgrade, plumbing,
sewerage and drainage works. A contract totalling $1.8 million was awarded for the
construction of perimeter fencing. Work is to be undertaken in two (2) phases. In Phase
I, 1,800 feet of fencing will be replaced on the front perimeter of the site and for Phase 2,
the western (700 feet) and eastern (1,000 feet) perimeters will be fenced. Overall
completion is thirty-five per cent (35%).
Main Building of the Nursing Facility at El Dorado
177.
The Ministry of Public Administration Scholarships Division utilised
approximately $211 million for continued investment in human capital. For fiscal year
2013 this was distributed as follows:
Training of Librarians at Master’s Level
– approximately twenty-five (25)
scholarship recipients with expenditure of $3.5 million
President’s Medal and Non Advanced Level Examinations
–fifteen (15)
scholars tuition and allowances with expenditure of $3.5 million
Teachers on Full Pay Study Leave
at Local Institutions – approximately $45
million expended to meet cost of salaries and allowances for five hundred
and thirty-eight (538) teachers currently in training (144 completed in Dec
2012) and an estimated two hundred (200) scholars in 2013
