An official missive has been directed to China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) from the Office of the Leader of Guyana’s Parliamentary Opposition expressing its anger at being snubbed by the Chinese Company during a recent visit.
Zhongdong Tang and a team of CHEC Officials travelled to Guyana on Thursday last and told media operatives that the company which has been contracted for the US$150M Expansion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport has given to the Board, “the Ministry of Works, and the Government of Guyana explanations of the issues which have again been brought to public attention.”
He was at the time speaking to allegations of corruption leveled against the Chinese company by the World Bank.
In the missive from Brigadier (rtd) David Granger’s Office, it said that, “A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) being together with the Alliance for Change (AFC), the Majority in the National Assembly, takes umbrage at being ignored by your company on its visit to Guyana to review a Major Infrastructure Project as the CJIA Expansion.”
The strongly worded missive emanating from Granger’s Office but bearing the signature of Joseph Harmon says too that, “A full engagement with us would have ensured a better understanding of the project that could have conditioned our support for it, as it is we feel that a major opportunity has been missed.”
He did sound the warning to CHEC that “as representative of the people we will continue to carefully scrutinize this project and any other project of such scale and magnitude as it relates to infrastructural works in Guyana.
Tang told the local media last week that, China Harbour also met and had open discussions with some civil society groups including the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and the Guyana Private Sector Commission.
The Combined Opposition parties had been ignored.
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