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BK International continues to misrepresent the facts – says GT&T

Jun 17, 2014 News

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has said that it notes with grave concern the relentless campaign by BK International Inc. to shift blame to the telephone company for the delay in the East Bank Demerara road project.
According to the telephone company, BK continues to misrepresent the facts surrounding the inordinate delays in the execution of the East Bank Demerara Road Projects. The company said yesterday that it can confirm that there are infrastructural facilities which are still to be re-located away from the project zone.
There was the expectation that GT&T should finance the re-location of the various infrastructure facilities “out-of-pocket.”
“For us, this is not an option… and  having agreed on May 6, 2014 to a court-supervised settlement in which we waived some $20.5 million, we are still awaiting the payment of this sum awarded, which is to be used for the re-location of the said facilities.”
The telephone company further noted that while it is true that as recent as May 6, last, GT&T issued an invoice for cable damaged to the tune of $396,652, lest the issues become muddled, the public must be told that this damage occurred in the project area at Lot 3, East Bank Four Lane Road project and not in the Timehri road project area.
GT&T said that the contractor’s statement about the depth of cables is at best speculative and GT&T refutes this allegation in its entirety.  “The contractor was in no way involved in the laying of these cables in 1993 and to the best of our knowledge, is not in possession of the “as-built” drawings” the telephone company stated.
The telephone company said that it can “say without fear of contradiction that these cables were laid following strict engineering specifications.”
“What BK International is careful not to mention is that mindful of landscape changes which could occur with time, GT&T excavated pilot holes and placed “route markers” to mitigate accidental cable damage during construction.”
The company said that the initiatives are consistent with good engineering practices, and were conducted with the contractor’s representatives as early as August 2011 and again in January 2012.
GT&T explained that its management team has numerous networks to operate and maintain and hundreds of thousands of customers to satisfy.
“Repeated replies to the Contractor’s spurious allegations distract from these responsibilities and are therefore not a high priority for us.”
“Our principal counterpart in Government road construction activities is the Ministry of Public Works, not any individual contractor,” GT&T noted.
The telephone company made it clear that it will remain ready and willing to collaborate with any and all road construction contractors, and that its preference is to continue to utilize the appropriate established mechanisms for constructive collaboration with the Ministry “as opposed to engaging in a counter-productive series of accusations and rebuttals in the media.”

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