Georgetown : The $3.6B East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) Northern Relief Channel has missed the scheduled December 31, 2013 deadline.
According to the Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, the major reason being that the contractor implementing the eight-door sluice component of the project, has completed just about 50 percent of the task thus far.
Considering that the project is being built for the first time in Guyana using home engineers and workers, the Ministry of Agriculture has extended the deadline of commissioning the project by two months, and is working with the contractor to have more than 90 percent of the work completed, and have the project become functional by February 14.
At the beginning of December, only 47 percent of the sluice was completed. Minister Ramsammy in a recent interview said the ministry met with the contractor; Courtney Benn Contracting Services and following discussion, it was agreed that the outstanding work will be carried out in six tranches that will bring it to more than 90 percent completion.
He pointed out that the ministry planned the tranches of work going into February, bearing in mind rainy conditions in January.
The project is being done by Courtney Benn Construction Services.
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