Project Coordinator of Guyana’s $3.1 billion e-governance project, Alexei Ramotar says that while supervision deficiencies have caused delays in the completion of the fibre optic cable-laying works, government has applied penalties and taken over the work to see it to the end by September, more than two years later than the first mooted completion date.
And he dismissed concerns of cyber espionage that the United States, Canada and Australia expressed on the use of Huawei – the Chinese IT giant whose technology is being used for the project.
Providing an update on the project, Ramotar told Stabroek News on Wednesday that while delays did affect the final budget of the project, they were able to recover funds from errant contractors by applying penalties. He would not comment on the cost overruns as a result of the delays. When this newspaper put the concerns of contractor Sam Barakat of Engineering and Construction Inc to Ramotar,
