Parliament on Thursday approved financial papers covering supplementary funds for several heads in this year's budget including $701M to wind up Linmine.

The Ministry of Finance was advanced $701.7M on top of the $2.5B for the Linden Mining Enterprise to be used to meet the cost for community power, severance payments and other severance-related costs for the company.

Financial Paper No. 4/2003 sought approval for current and capital estimates in the sum of $718.8M for the period July 31, 2003 to November 17, 2003.

Financial Paper 5/2003 sought approval for capital estimates totalling $3.7B for the period ended December 31, 2003.

Among other items on the financial papers was the sum of $326M to meet outstanding payments to Lagan International for works performed on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport runway. The Ministry of Health has been given an additional $375M for the New Amsterdam Hospital.

For its Guyana Basic Education Training programme, the Ministry of Education is receiving $27M, while $1.1B is going towards the Ministry of Housing and Water for its Water Supply Technical Assistance programme.

Outlined in Financial Paper No. 4/2003 was the cost of repairs to the Guyana Consulate in Washington DC damaged by Hurricane Isabel, for which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had been allocated $981,250.