Review all Surendra contracts, APNU says

Amid charges by the government that the Indian firm Surendra Engineering Company Limited (SECL) has engaged in fraud in relation to the $3.6 billion Specialty Hospital project, the main opposition APNU is calling for the immediate review of all ongoing and pending contracts with the company.

APNU executive member Dr Rupert Roopnaraine told Stabroek News that after government revealed that it would terminate the contract for the construction of the Speciality Hospital “it would be unthinkable that they (the government) will be continuing with any arrangement with this company. That is an enormous mistake.”

Last Tuesday, the Donald Ramotar administration announced that the contract for the controversial US$18 million