Despite protests businesses government will not adjust location railway track

The government will not change the location of the railway line Paramaribo-Onverwacht, which will be build along the Indira Gandhiweg. Eddy Jozefzoon, advisor to president Desi Bouterse, made this clear during a meeting with representatives of businesses and residents of the Indira Gandhiweg in Lelydorp on Thursdaynight. “According to Jozefzoon technically it is impossible and it will be too expensive for the government to move the railway track to another location. The government is willing to compensate those people who will suffer losses,” says Henk Gooswit, chairman of the Committee Interests Indira Gandhiweg…[+]