Contractors’ body shocked at lack of consultation on housing project

Riled up: The members of the GCAG who visited the office of the Stabroek News earlier this week.

Members of the General Contractors Association of Guyana (GCAG) are fuming over the disclosure by the Ministry of Communities earlier this week that it was engaging a Chinese company to construct low and middle-income homes, complete with water and sanitation systems.

On Tuesday, a day after reports that Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Patterson had gone to Suriname with a technical team and met representatives of the Chinese company, 14 local contractors visited the Stabroek Business to voice their “considerable disquiet.”