(Jamaica Observer) Contractor General Greg Christie has asked the new People’s National Party administration to declare its hand in negotiations with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) for completion of the US$600-million North-South Link Highway 2000, and for the consequential granting of a 50-year toll concession to that company is concerned.
Christie made the call in a congratulatory letter to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on her swearing-in in which he, among other things, raised concerns about the project and sought audience with the admi
nistration to canvass its opinions on some 25 recommendations which he says are for urgent consideration and implementation.
Chief among those are what he said are “strong objections to the apparent intent of the former Government to award, without international competitive tender, a sole-source contract to CHEC to, among other things, complete the construction of the Spanish Town to Ocho Rios North-South Link of Highway 2000 and the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP)“.
