New Christianburg Multilateral School to cost at least $2.5B
Apr 10, 2025
Kaieteur News- The new Christianburg Multilateral School, which the government plans to construct in Linden, Region 10, will cost at least GY$2.5 billion.
The Christianburg Wismar Secondary School in Region 10. (Photo courtesy, Christianburg Wismar Secondary School Facebook page)
This is according to the recent tender opening, which revealed that out of seven shortlisted bidders, only two moved forward to the procurement process.
According to information provided by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office, the two bidders are Shandong High-Speed Dejian Group Company Limited who submitted a financial proposal of GY$2,572,719,583, and Power China Jiangxi Power Construction Company Limited who bid US$139,626,315 for the project.
Notably, both bidders originate from China and are no strangers to the country’s construction industry.
The project is being funded through a World Bank loan. In December 2024, the Education Ministry issued a tender, requesting bids for the project, at which both local and overseas firms initially applied for the contract.
In its tender document, the Ministry stated that Guyana had received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the ‘Guyana Strengthening Human Capital through Education Project.’ The agency intends to apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the contract for the ‘Construction of the New Christianburg Multilateral School.’
This publication reported that the plans to build a new school for the Christianburg students were made in October 2023 when Minister of Education Priya Manickchand visited Linden. The Minister revealed the plans after a parent raised concerns about the current structure of the secondary school. This newspaper learned that the current structure – the Christianburg/Wismar Secondary School will be reconstructed and named the New Christianburg Multilateral.
Back in August 2023, the government had signed a US$44 million loan agreement with the World Bank.
The project focuses on the expansion of access to quality education at the secondary level and improving technical and vocational training (TVET). The project will also support the piloting and national rollout of a new curriculum for Grades Seven to Nine and finance textbooks for Grades Seven to Eleven.
It will also see the development of a new TVET sector policy for 2022-2030 and improve the delivery of TVET at secondary and post-secondary institutions. Two other secondary schools have been built through funding by the World Bank. Those schools are the Good Hope Secondary School and the Westminster Secondary School.
The construction of secondary schools is part of the government’s goal of achieving universal secondary education in the country.
(New Christianburg Multilateral School to cost at least $2.5B)
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