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…Edghill to dispatch poor performance letter to company
Kaieteur News – Inspecting the road works ongoing from Conversation Tree to Dennis Street, Georgetown, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Tuesday called out one of the two contractors, a Trinidadian firm over its pace of works on the project.
The minister was accompanied by residents and other government officials to the project site on Tuesday.
During the visit to the project site where both Trinidadian company, Kallco Limited and Jagmohan Construction and General Supplies Inc. are conducting work, the Minister said he received a barrage of complaints from residents in relation to the same project.
Following a walk-through of the project site, Minister Edghill told media operatives that this particular project is a significant one that will make a huge difference in the lives of residents of surrounding communities, and everyone else as it will improve the country’s road network system. He said this project cannot be left to drag along this way.
Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill at the project site on Tuesday.
“I walk the alignment today to see the progress of works, and apart from merely checking, residents from the Campbellville area who you heard voiced their concerns, as well as residents from the Bel Air area, have called me, contacted me, met me at various forums and said they are not satisfied with the inconvenience and the rest of it. I have come myself and have seen what is going on, both contractors need to up their game, this project needs to be finished in the contracted obligated time 5th November,” the Minister explained.
He added that “Jagmohan seems to be making progress, while Kallco is practically making no progress.”
Some of the works ongoing on a new four-lane carriageway from Conversation Tree to Dennis Street, Georgetown.
He further shared that from the engineers’ advice, some 65 percentage of the contract time has elapsed and only about 25 percent of the work has been completed. He noted that he has instructed that Kallco meet with him at his office on Monday afternoon, for them to determine if this project will continue with them or be terminated.
Kaieteur News understands that the contractor will be issued with a warning letter for poor performance in relation to the road improvement project that is the widening of the corridors from Conversation Tree to Dennis Street, Georgetown.
It was reported that the $1.8 billion road project which entails the construction of a four-lane carriageway from the East Coast Highway to Delhi Street, a double-lane carriageway on the reserve west of Delhi Street for northbound traffic, concrete revetments between the East Coast Demerara Highway and Railway Embankment with concrete drains on both sides of the proposed roadway between the railway embankment and Delhi Street, and two large concrete bridges to create a link to Dennis Street, is divided into two lots.
The project which was awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office last year saw that Lot 8A of the project was awarded to S. Jagmohan Construction and General Supplies Inc. to the tune of $1,066, 358,738, while Lot 8B was awarded to Trinidad’s Kallco Guyana Inc. to the tune of $830,293,458.
This publication had reported earlier this month, the minister had flagged contractors on their slow pace of works at another project. He was at the time inspecting the ongoing works on the 32 hinterland wooden bridges to concrete structures project which are situated along the Kurupukari to Lethem corridor.
There, he had mentioned that it seems as though some people want to do work at their own time when they are ready and when they feel like doing it. With this being said, he made it clear that “mediocrity will not be condoned by me in anyway … excellence is the standard that I set…not mediocrity.”
- Conversation Tree to Dennis Street, flagged, Juan Edghill, Ministry of Public Works, poor performance, road project
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