Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo is to hold talks with officials of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) for a 108m-US-dollar loan to the country, the state-owned Government Information Agency (Gina) has said. It said that the loan is expected to materialize by September 2005. Gina said that Jagdeo, who leaves here this weekend [28-29 August] for Washington, would discuss with the IADB officials how soon Georgetown could access the loan and that he would also participate in a review and programming of priority projects. Gina said that among the priority projects include the construction of a new road to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri. It said the discussion with the IADB would also focus on the 10m-US-dollar existing loan that Guyana wants to use to construct the Berbice River Bridge. "I intend to have discussions with the IADB on how soon we can release those resources so that we can move forward speedily with construction of the bridge," Jagdeo said. While in Washington, Jagdeo will meet with United States government officials on the recent decision to provide a Tier-Three ranking for Trafficking in Persons (TIP), Gina said. --More 2318 Local Time 2018 GMT
