Less than a week after Cabinet gave its no objection to the $9.2 billion West Coast Road Project, a contract was yesterday signed and work is scheduled to begin shortly.
The project which will see the upgrading of the West Coast Demerara Road, and which is funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) was signed yesterday by Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn and BK International and Surrey Paving and Aggregate Company Ltd of Jamaica. It was given the greenlight by Cabinet last Tuesday.
According to Benn, the joint venture was given the task to execute the road work component of the Fourth Road Project which runs from Vreed-en-Hoop to Hydronie. It encompasses approximately 30.7 kilometres of
