Synergy Holdings will no longer be responsible for constructing the remaining timber bridges which were originally part of the Amaila Falls access road project and the sum budgeted will be deducted from the US$15.4 million contract, government engineer Walter Willis says.
Willis, the senior government engineer overseeing the project, told Stabroek News that this is part of an effort to speed up the project. Synergy, Willis said, has so far completed about 30 per cent of the work, but noted that the weather has not been favourable to the contractors. “There is slippage because of bad weather,” Willis said, adding that at present the high water in the Essequibo River has stopped work at Butakari where Synergy is supposed to build a pontoon terminal.
Meanwhile, on Friday President Bharrat Jagdeo said that while there might be some slippage in the project, he does not expect it to significantly affect
