The Sheriff Street/ Mandela Avenue road expansion project, which was stalled following dissatisfaction by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with the quality of safety and traffic-control mechanisms by the contractor, Sinohydro Corporation is now set to resume.
The Chinese company had failed to adhere to the environmental management, social management, road safety and traffic control regulations and other contractual obligations resulting in the IDB withholding payments.
Following the IDB decision to withhold further payments, the company in November had informed employees that the decision was made to terminate their services since the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) still owed payment for three months of work.
