Auditor General Deodat Sharma has undertaken an examination into the protracted construction of the Bamia/Amelia’s Ward Primary School in Region Ten (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice).
This is according to a letter from Chief Executive Officer of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) Michael Singh to former public works minister David Patterson, who had requested an update on the situation.
According to the letter, which this newspaper has seen, the PPC’s CEO wrote: “… please be informed that in exercise of Article 212 AA(1) of the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the PPC has referred the matter to the Auditor General, inter alia, for the examination of the tender award and any necessary actions emanating therefrom”.
