Chinese builders of troubled Skeldon factory to leave next month

A number of engineers with  China National Technical Industrial Corporation (CNTIC) – builders of the troubled Skeldon sugar factory – are expected to leave Guyana next month but questions remain over the quality of the company’s work and penalties it should have faced over what was to be a turn-key project.

GuySuCo CEO Paul Bhim told Stabroek News last week that three of four Chinese nationals attached to CNTIC, who are working with the corporation by providing technical training and support to staff at the factory, would be leaving next month. The other will leave the country before year end.

Bhim explained that the presence