The Ministry of Public Works last week met with the Vice President of Sinohydro Corporation Limited, the company responsible for the Sheriff Street-Mandela expansion/upgrade, over the company’s “slow and disappointing” execution of the project.
As a result of the meeting, the company committed to revising its work programme and agreed to outline how they will allocate additional resources to ensure the work can be sped up, Minister of Public Works, David Patterson told reporters yesterday at an Alliance For Change press conference.
Patterson noted that government, after reviewing the revised programme, has given its commitment to respond to the company three days after being in receipt of it.
The Public Works Minister had related that the ministry wrote to the company requesting that they send a senior representative to explain the project’s slow progress. Subsequently, the company’s Vice President met with ministry officials, during a meeting which also included representatives from the Inter-American Bank (IDB) and the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs.
The release noted that the site for the project was handed over to the company early last year after the contract was awarded and work commenced in the latter part of the year. The contract is pegged at US$31.03 million and is being financed by the IDB.
