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After three years, Abary Sluice still not complete

Aug 05, 2013 News

In December 2010, the contract for a $149M sluice was signed between the Government of Guyana and Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL).
The contract, which stipulated the arrangement for the Abary Sluice to be constructed, was done as an effort to reduce flooding significantly in the Mahaica/Mahaicony/Abary area.
Former Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud at the signing, warned that any postponement of the project would have detrimental effects on farmers.
In light of these pressing facts, Courtney Benn is still unable to deliver, after three years.
Government officials stressed on the urgency of the drainage project which is a part of refurbishing the drainage system in the entire Region 5.
The then Agriculture Minister had said that it is of critical importance to one of the country’s main agricultural farming communities that caters for sugar, rice and livestock.
According to present Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, “it was expected that the Abary sluice would have taken the most, a year to build and be in working order, but it has been three years since the contract was signed and the Abary sluice has not been completed.”
The Minister said that the Abary Sluice not being completed is the fault of Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited.
The company has been working on the project, “little by little and I have been behind him and he is now completing it.”
Kaieteur News questioned the company’s Managing Director Courtney Benn on the project’s delay, since it was to have been completed by late 2011.
“The problem is bad weather. Equipment cannot go down to the site when there is heavy rainfall. Though the one year contract was signed in December, 2010 and we are over our time, we have legitimate reasons for our delay.”
When pressed further on the “legitimate reasons,” Benn did not elaborate.
Kaieteur News understands that 90% of the works on the Abary sluice were completed thus far.

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