Indian company Fedders Lloyd will commence infrastructural works on the Specialty Hospital at Liliendaal on the East Coast of Demerara by June this year as it is currently tweaking its design specifications to cater for construction done by the previous contractor.
“We are targeting by the half year for everything to be in place…I think by the end of June we should see some movement on the site,” Minister of Finance Winston Jordan told members of the media yesterday.
Government’s announcement last November of a Memorandum of Under-standing with Fedders Lloyd to take over the project without public tendering sparked controversy and numerous calls for the arrangement to be terminated.
The Finance Minister yesterday restated that the project will not cost more than the remaining US$13M from EXIM Bank of India financing. Previous contractors Surendra Engineering was fired, citing fraud, by the previous People’s Progres-sive Party/Civic administration but had claimed that it had spent US$4M from the US$18M before that contract was terminated.
