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$58.5M living quarters to be constructed at Mazaruni Prison

Apr 28, 2017 News

– Will house long-term prisoners from Camp St.
Contracts in the sum of $58,558,000 were awarded to contractors to construct living quarters at the Mazaruni Prisons, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).
Making this announcement yesterday at the post-Cabinet press briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency was State Minister, Joseph Harmon.
“For the construction of living quarters at Mazaruni Prisons, Ministry of Public Security – Lot One, a contract in the sum of $28,141,000 was awarded to A. Nazier and Sons Contracting; Lot Two, in sum of $30,447,000, a contract awarded to R. Kissoon Contracting Services.”
Harmon said that the intention is to provide accommodation for some of the long-term prisoners that will be transferred from the Georgetown (Camp Street) Prisons to the Mazaruni facility.
Harmon could not provide the entire scope of works or the dimensions of the structures. He however noted that the aforementioned sums will also include providing a ‘proper fence’ for the entire 20 acres that the prison sits upon.
“We are trying to make better accommodation for prisoners that are in keeping with the standards that are obtained all round the world. Even though they’re in Prison, we still have to deal with them and treat them as proper human beings, and therefore, the conditions that we provide for them in these facilities, we’re looking to upgrade those. At the same time, we’re trying to strengthen the facilities there at the Mazaruni Prison.”
On February last, Cabinet had approved the contract for the construction of six living quarters at the Mazaruni Prisons.
The contract was allocated in two lots, with lot one, in the sum of $41,127,930 going to N&A Construction and lot two, in the sum of $35,820,000, awarded to A.A.V Raghubeer General Construction.
Harmon said yesterday that the contracts to carry out works on the prison, would have stemmed from a Presidential Visit to the facility last year, where the Head of State, David Granger, “had a firsthand look at what was there and recognised that we needed to do a little better”.

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