{"id":28403,"date":"2026-02-11T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=28403"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:23:08","slug":"500m-approved-for-new-amerindian-hostel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/500m-approved-for-new-amerindian-hostel\/","title":{"rendered":"$500M approved for new Amerindian hostel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>A new Amerindian Hostel will be constructed following the approval of funding by the Parliamentary Committee of Supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the $7.5 billion allocation to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs approved Tuesday evening, $500 million has been set aside for the new hostel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amerindian Affairs Minister Sarah Browne-Shadeek, defending the allocation, said that the new facility is being designed to accommodate up to 350 residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explained that several potential locations are under consideration, with the final site to be confirmed soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>So the one for the Amerindian hostel at Princess Street, all we&#8217;re doing here on the capital is we&#8217;re going to be upgrading the cupboards to commercial grade cupboards, and for the new construction of the new Amerindian hostel, there&#8217;s a sum, as I said in my budget speech, of $500 million that will be used to start a new building<\/strong>,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister noted that the existing facility on Princess Street is ageing and requires ongoing repairs and upkeep. As a result, $31 million has been approved to support maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;This would cater for the existing Amerindian hostel. As you know, it&#8217;s a very old building at this time. There&#8217;s always breakage. We have to do continuous maintenance, so this sum caters for that<\/strong>,&#8221; the minister further explained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Amerindian Hostel will be constructed following the approval of funding by the Parliamentary Committee of Supply. Of the $7.5 billion allocation to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs approved&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[660,572,471,350],"tags":[488,658,659,537,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-28403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amerindian-development","category-budget-2026","category-infrastructural-development","category-news","tag-488","tag-amerindian-affairs","tag-amerindian-hostel","tag-budget-2026","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28405,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28403\/revisions\/28405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}