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Works stalled on $40M Camp St. annex

Dec 30, 2008 News

From all indications the completion of the $40M Camp Street Prisons annex will not meets its deadline.
According to Director of Prisons Dale Erskine, no work is currently being done on the structure.
However, when asked about the reason for this, Erskine said that all he knows is that there is a problem with the contractors and as such the works have been stalled.
He said the dormitory was expected to be completed this month, but with the current situation there will have to be an extension on the deadline for completion.
Works on the dormitory began early this year and were listed as priority for the Ministry of Home Affairs.
In an earlier statement Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee had noted that the administration is cognisant of the problem facing the prison in relation to overcrowding, and promised that work would commence early this year.
Minister Rohee, after visiting the penitentiary on September 26 last year, had promised that Government would look at the overcrowding, and in October of the same year the government allocated $40M for the construction of the building.

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