Engineer never submitted payment certificates for GMC building works, supervisor testifies

Frederick Flatts, former senior civil engineer in the Agriculture Sector Development Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, on Tuesday testified that he never received payment certificates from Hanniel Madramootoo for works that were done on the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) building.

Flatts made this disclosure during the trial of former GMC General Manager Nizam Hassan and Felicia Madramootoo, the wife of Hanniel, who are accused of conspiring with Hanniel and others to approve payments to Constantine Engineering and Construction Services, although the works were “incompetently and incorrectly” done.

Also charged are Hanniel’s brother, Philp Madramootoo, and his friend Nizam Ramkissoon, both Directors of Constantine Engineering and Construction Services Limited, of Trinidad and Tobago.

The charge states that Hanniel, who was the Project Engineer within the Ministry of Agriculture, conspired to commit