Turkeyen campus contractor slammed over sloppy work

The company that was awarded the $23 million contract for the repairs to the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus was yesterday accused of unacceptable and sloppy work by campus staffers during a visit by Education Minister Priya Manickchand.

“The library, the roof of the library, the gauge of zinc is the wrong gauge, the material used to hold up the roof is not greenheart and it is split all over… there are gaping holes and cracks,” President of the University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) Dr Patsy Francis told the minister yesterday,