Works began yesterday for the construction of the controversial US$18M Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, on the East Coast of Demerara, where local firm BK International is laying the foundation.
“We are now driving the piles; you know, doing some grubbing works,” a BK International supervisor told Stabroek News at the site yesterday.
Work has restarted following a controversial vote in Parliament last month which allowed funding for the project to be passed. APNU MP Volda Lawrence did not vote as intended as she was unwell.
On Tuesday, BK International’s crewmen began transferring machinery to the site and yesterday
