Region Six Chairman warns slothful contractors

Aug 24, 2013 News

Although the Region Six Administration is forging ahead with its capital and current work programme for the year, the Chairman
David Armogan has revealed that the administration is experiencing a lot of problems with contractors who are lagging behind in their work. As a result, disciplinary action will be taken against certain contractors, some of whom have not started work on many roads across the region.
The road project, which has rolled over from 2012, is experiencing problems. Some 99 roads were awarded to be done in Region Six, “and some of these contractors— although they were supposed to have completed this work at the end of March— some of them are yet to start some of the work,” Armogan said.
He added that at some point the Government will have to enforce the Performance- Liability Clause “and maybe they will have to start paying for not completing work on time.”
Armogan stressed that contractors in the region must be able to do quality work and be able to do it on time.
“We have quite a few of our contractors— although we are now seeing some amount of improvement in terms of the quality— the problem is that they are not being able to complete this work in a timely manner and it is one of the things that residents are complaining [about].”
The Chairman stated, too, that residents are being informed that works will be done in their area “and then months after, nothing has started and people hold us to it….They feel that we are lying…but it is just that some of these contractors have not been cooperating at all.”
Armogan said that the defaulting contractors will also have a difficult time being awarded contracts in the future as well.
“Some of them…we have noted it, and in our works programmes for this year, we couldn’t give them any more work, because if you can’t complete what you were given presently— some of them are so smart that they have not even applied for more work this year because of the fact that they were not able to complete the works that they were given late last year, so I don’t think it’s sensible to want to apply for new work.”
The Chairman and his works team visited the Baracara Area up the Berbice River a few weeks ago looking at jobs to be done there.
“Works on the Health Centre as well as school will be done,” he stated. “Hopefully, before the end of the year, we are pretty sure we will be able to complete 100 per cent of our work programme based on the pace of the contractors.”
“All the contractors are busy doing work. We are spending about $383M in capital work programmes and we also have our maintenance programme. Over 60 per cent of the works of that programme has been awarded, and it will have to do a lot with the schools, so we can have all our buildings in some shape come September when school reopens.” (Leon Suseran)

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