Hope Canal completion date still June 2013 – Wordsworth

Excavators building up the embankment at the Hope Canal in September (Stabroek News file photo)

Despite being only 13.5% complete up to the end of October, the eight-door sluice for the Hope Canal as well as the entire Hope Canal Project is still expected to be completed by June 2013, Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, Lionel Wordsworth says.

Last week, Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy had expressed concern over the slow pace of construction of the sluice and Wordsworth said that the contractor,