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Jan 20, 2015 News
Out of an allocation of $1.802B for Sea and River Defence, the Ministry of Public Works’ Sea and River Defence Division expended $1.502B; ($1.3B on capital programmes and $202.83M on maintenance).
This is according to information provided by Coordinator, Work Services Group (WSG,) Geoffrey Vaughn, at the recent Ministry of Public Works’ press briefing on the sector’s 2014 performance.
Vaughn explained that the unspent money, $300M was provided under donor funded projects. Last year, this sum was budgeted for project activities under the Caribbean Development Bank/Government of Guyana (CDB/GOG) Sea and River Defence Resilience project. It covered, estimates for payments on consultancy services and works.
Though major advancements were made with the procurement process, no contracts were initiated in 2014 due to delays in the finalisation of administrative arrangements and official approvals from the CDB and the GOG. However, contracts for planned activities are expected to be finalised during the first quarter of 2015, Vaughn said.
Of the $1.3B expended in the area of sea defence construction in 2014, the Sea and River Defence Division was able to exceed all its 2014 projects targeted. The division achieved 3.195kilometres (km) of new sea defence construction (3.06km was programmed,) rehabilitated 10.29 km (2.805km was programmed,) and provided for the maintenance of another 45.4km (20.7km was programmed).
The year saw reconstruction of critical sea defence in areas such as Onderneeming, Essequibo, Region Two, Cane Garden, Leguan, Rotterdam and Greenwich, East Bank Essequibo, Region Three; Mosquito Hall, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara and Glasgow/Heatburn, East Bank Berbice.
The intervention at Onderneeming, Essequibo was an intervention of $107.88M. It catered for the provision of 584 metres (m) of slope protection worked carried out from January 15, 2014 to August 15, 2014 by contractor, Deodat Singh. For the contract sum of $43.8M, contractor Roopchand Maraj, completed 420m of rip rap river defence at Cane Garden. During the period January to June 2014, contractor, Eman Reasat, completed 90m of rip rap sea defence at Greenwich Park to the tune of $42.3M.
The work at Rotterdam was provided for under a contract sum of $61.1M. B.K International Inc., completed 250m of emergency work in this area.
Mosquito Hall, Mahaica saw the biggest intervention for the year. A contract sum of $275.5M was expended towards the construction of river defence. This project, which is currently in Phase One, commenced on June 2014, and is scheduled to be completed in February of this year. Thus far, 540m of work has been completed by contractor, M&B construction.
The contracted sum of $116.66M was also awarded to M&B Construction to construct rip rap sea defence at Glasgow/Heatburn. Work to this effect commenced on September 15, and thus far, 150m has been completed. Meanwhile, in Georgetown, the rehabilitation of Fort Groyne at Kingston continued in 2014, as part of the Sea and River Defence Division’s featured sea defence rehabilitation project. Contractor M&B Construction commenced work on August 22, 2014, and to date 117m of work was achieved. The contract sum on this job is $11.65M.
The Sea and River Defence Force Action Unit also carried out installation of geotextile tubes along the Georgetown Sea Defence. (GINA)
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