Government needs to explain why about $800 million worth of steel and other equipment that were earmarked for the now-frozen specialty hospital project, went solely to businessman Brian Tiwarie, former President Donald Ramotar says.
“We took possession of eight containers of steel that Surendra, at the time we took them to court, had on the wharf and that was worth nearly double the $400M they owed us,” Ramotar told Stabroek News yesterday, referring to the first contractor, Surendra Engineering which was dumped from the project after it misled government.
“The public needs to know how after all of that work, that the containers were turned over to
