The European Union (EU) has called for the speeding up of sea-defence works here, while warning that Guyana can lose funding for projects it has been supporting.
The EU, which has been funding various projects here in various sectors, including sugar, sea-defence and aviation, said in a release yesterday that recently accredited Ambassador Robert Kopecky has called on contractor BK International—a major player in the sea defence sector—to accelerate works being undertaken.
He said that delays over the past two years are caused mainly by a “certain lack of capacity in managing the
