Cabinet clears $90.8M for Yarrowkabra roads, $40M for Aurora sea defence

Cabinet has granted its no-objection to $90.8 million for community roads at Yarrowkabra, Linden/Soesdyke Highway and $40 million for rip-rap sea defences at Aurora, Essequibo Coast.

A statement from the Ministry of the Presidency on Friday said that no-objections were granted at the September 30 Cabinet meeting.

The contract for the Yarrowkabra roads has gone to S Jagmohan Hardware Supplies and the rip-rap contract has gone to BK International.

Rehabilitation to the tune of $46 million is to be done to the Guyana Police Force’s Quartermaster building at Eve Leary and Cabinet gave its no-objection for this project which will go to S&K Construction Services.

A contract for the sum of $20.6 million was cleared by Cabinet for the rehabilitation of Byderabo Hill Top Road, Bartica and this contract was awarded to H Nauth and Sons. XL Engineering got the nod for the rehabilitation of community roads (Independence Square), Kwakwani to the tune of $27.8 million.

Cabinet also gave its no-objection to a 70.5% increase in the contract sum for the design and supervision of civil works for the University of Guyana’s Science and Technology Support Project. The original sum was US$217,328 and this has now moved to US$370,734 or $77.8 million. The contractors are Hydea Italy and RPA Rossiprodi Associati, Italy.

For the procurement of service connections for the Guyana Water Incorporated, four contracts were cleared. Lot 1 for galvanized pipes saw a $22.9 million contract going to National Hardware Ltd. Lots 2, 3 and 4 for polyhose, ferrule straps and stop cocks went to Y2K Construction for the respective sums of $8.4 million, $22 million and $14.8 million.

For the provision of janitorial services and cleaning supplies to the Georgetown Public Hospital, the following contracts were cleared for selected items, Memorex Enterprise, $10.9 million; Lorick Persaud, $6 million; Technocon Investments, $784,000; Ishmail Janmahamad, $5.7 million; Alvin Rambajan, $2.4 million; International Pharmaceutical Agency, $3 million; Metro Office and Stationery Supplies, $1.1 million and S&K Construction Services $1.2 million.