US$3.8M paid over for completed Amaila road works

Work ongoing on the Amaila Falls access road

Up to last Saturday, Synergy Holdings Inc. had been paid US$3.8 million for the work done so far on the Amaila Falls access road project, and the company is in the process of finalising arrangements with local subcontractors to complete some aspects of the work, senior government engineer Walter Willis has disclosed.

Willis, who is the government’s technical advisor on the project, told this newspaper that Synergy Holdings Inc. has so far completed about 25 percent of the US$15.4 million project. The payments, Willis said, were made following the measurement of the completed works by the supervising team.

Synergy Holdings is badly behind on