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GOA signs $47M contract to commence work on Headquarters
By Edison Jefford
The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) yesterday signed a $47M contract for the first phase of construction of its Headquarters that will be built on an acre of land at Liliendaal with Chandralall Deokie of C. Deokie and Sons Contracting Services being awarded the contract.
GOA President, Juman Yassin signs the contract to initiate construction of its Headquarters with Contractor, Chandralall Deokie (left) of C. Deokie & Sons Contracting Services and John Lewis of the Guyana Rugby Football Union yesterday.
GOA President, K. A. Juman Yassin announced yesterday that 15% of the amount will be made available immediately to initiate the works. He disclosed that works from that initial allotment of 15% of the funds should take 14 weeks.
Yassin informed that the state-of-the-art Headquarters will house several offices, boardrooms, a hall that can occupy around 350 persons at once among several other key important components necessary for such a facility.
He said that the total cost of the GOA Headquarters would be around US$1M and called on the Government for assistance. “We will be writing the Government asking them for VAT and Tax waivers. I have no doubt that Minister (Frank) Anthony will recommend this,” Yassin told the media yesterday at Olympic House.
Currently the GOA pays a hefty rent for its temporary Kingston Headquarters and is seeking to have its own facility that Yassin says has gotten the approval of all the affiliated associations. He believes that they are moving in the right direction.
“We could have used 15-20 million and put down a building to satisfy some people, but we look and we felt that we needed to put down a building that all of Guyana can be proud of,” he noted, adding that the building will serve a variety of functions.
In addition to those earlier listed, Yassin indicated that the building will house Guyana’s sports medicine complex. The construction of GOA Headquarters has been on the cards for some time now. Yassin said that it is important that a modern facility be constructed since they will be the neighbours of CARICOM in Liliendaal.
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