Councillor urges probe of structure without foundation

Councillor Anthony ‘Trini’ Boyce

An “urgent and thorough enquiry” into last week’s discovery that a multi-storey structure under construction in the capital could provide important insights into irregularities in the procedures associated with the erection of buildings in the capital, a city councillor has said.

“It would be reckless to proceed without an enquiry into how the situation with the North Road and Oronoque Street structure occurred. It may well be that important procedures associated with construction regulations were ignored. It surprises me that there have not been more calls for an enquiry from professionals in the sector,” Vice Chairman of the council’s Works Committee Anthony ‘Trini’ Boyce told Stabroek Business on Tuesday.

The Stabroek News, in its last Wednesday’s edition, published a caption story in which it reported that the