Eight-gate sluice still holding back Hope Canal

-Engineer Sohan sees another year’s worth of work

Three of the four components of the $3.6 billion Hope Canal Project (HCP) have been completed with only the eight-gate sluice by Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited (CBCSL) still to be finished, according to Agriculture Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy.

Ramsammy is holding firm to the revised June 2014 deadline for the flood-relief project though this is being doubted by an engineer who has been following it. The Minister said that everything else for the project was completed and only CBCSL has to finish its part.

Ramsammy told Stabroek News that the contractor was given time to finish the eight-gate sluice and that this