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Plans scrapped for Ministry of Labour; contractor to be firedThe Ministry of Health which two Fridays ago lost its Brickdam, Georgetown head office to fire is to be relocated to the US$3M complex being set up at Princes and High Streets, Georgetown.This building, being constructed at a cost of US$3 million is the most likely location for the Ministry of Health. Construction of the building, which was first identified for the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security, has been dogged by consistent delays.Kaieteur News understands that the government is moving to terminate the contract and reassign the project.Contacted yesterday, Minister of Labour,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Manzoor Nadir, told Kaieteur News that Government was “very disturbed” by the pace at which the contractor,Cheap Jerseys From China, Kishan Bacchus,Wholesale Jerseys China, was executing the works. The project was scheduled to be completed last November, but a five-month extension was granted to April 30, last, given the inclement weather and difficulties faced by the contractor in sourcing building materials.However, three months after the extended deadline, the building remains largely incomplete and the government is now considering a new contractor to complete the building.Minister Nadir told Kaieteur News that with the fire destroying the Ministry of Health,Cheap Jerseys From China, the building was being considered to house that Ministry.When the government decided to merge the state-owned Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) and Guyana Television (GTV), it decided to scrap the buildings which were used by the radio station.With the merger of the state-owned broadcasting media,Cheap Jerseys From China, the plans were announced for a new building at High and Princes Streets for the Ministry of Labour,China Jerseys Cheap, Human Services and Social Security, which is still now operating out of at least four properties in the city. However, that plan was thrown out.According to Minister Nadir, earlier this year the government decided that once completed, the building could best be used to house a number of other government agencies which were operating from rented facilities.Nadir estimated that the rental was adding up to some $40 million monthly and hence it was thought more feasible to move those agencies into the new building.But with the Ministry of Health being destroyed by fire two weeks ago in a suspected case of arson, the government thought that the building would suit the purposes of the Ministry of Health.Works on the building started in the first quarter of 2008. |
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