200 Chinesefor road work

Wed, Sep 22nd 2010, 08:00 PM

By KRYSTEL ROLLE
Guardian Staff Reporter
krystel@nasguard.com

The House of Assembly last night approved a resolution for the government to borrow nearly$58 million from the China Export-Import Bank to construct a four-lane airport highway.
The project will mean the grant of 200 work permits for Chinese laborers, but also a very low interest rate for the loan.
Expressing concerns about growing government debt as well as the foreign labor component of the airport road plan, opposition MPs voted against the resolution, but Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the Progressive Liberal Party does not speak for the majority of the Bahamian people.
"By our deeds they know us,"Ingraham said....

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