After nearly three years of delays with excuses about poor weather and stone shortage, to equipment malfunctions, Minister in the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar yesterday called for a $87m concrete road project at Mahdia (Potaro-Siparuni) to be terminated.
“This is no longer a project with K&P [Project Management] and the Government of Guyana. I am instructing the Perma-nent Secretary to cancel it,” Indar said on an inspection of the thoroughfare.
A release from the Ministry of Public Works said that Indar dispelled the weather excuse by showing the contractor the tan on his skin and that of residents as indicative of the scorching heat.
In addition to the road project being behind its extended September 2022 deadline, the completed portion of the road done is replete with structural issues.
Indar later said that another delayed road project at Mahdia is on the chopping block. He in-formed Mahdia residents that the incomplete construction project on the concrete road at Danjah Street will be canceled since it is well beyond its completion date.
Only 42% of the $60.5m concrete road project had been executed.
A separate release from the Ministry said that Indar also upbraided the contractor responsible for completing a $108.6m concrete road (500 metres) within the Mahdia township.
When questioned by Indar on why preparatory works were not done, the foreman blamed the weather. The release said that this attracted a sharp rebuke from Indar and the residents who said that the weather had been mostly favourable.
“At the strike of one month from now, if this road isn’t done, consider your contract done,” Indar stated.
Amerindian Affairs Minister, Pauline Sukhai, and local leaders are accompanying Minister Indar on road inspections at Mahdia.
