Three employees of the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) have been sent on leave to enable a probe of how the ship that slammed into it last month departed without official notification.
The attorney for the ship, the MV Tradewind Passion however told Stabroek News yesterday that an action on behalf of the government to stall the departure of the ship had failed in court and there had been no impediment to its departure. The departure is seen as a major embarrassment to the government which has said that the ship caused $1b in damage. No money has yet been paid over but the court has accepted the lodging of a Letter of Undertaking to the value of $247.4m. This would ostensibly be paid over if court action by the government against the ship owner succeeds.
