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CONTRACTS SIGNED FOR ROAD REPAIRS

Mr. Justin O’gilvie of Incomparable Enterprise Ltd; is assisted in signing a contract by Leo McEwan, Public Relations Officer. Looking on are Minister Mike Henry (2nd from right) and Dr. Alwin Hales, Permanent Secretary

Contracts amounting to over $557.5 million were signed at the offices of the Ministry of Transport and Works on Tuesday, December 23, 2008. The contracts were signed for road and gully repairs following extensive damage by tropical storm Gustav.

The works will concentrate on four parishes, namely Kingston, St. Andrew, Manchester and Clarendon. Scope of works include road rehabilitation, repairs to re-inforced concrete walls, gully and other drainage repairs.

Details of the contracts are as follows:

  • C.A.B Construction Ltd
$73.7M Craighead/Ballynur     
  • Y.P Seaton & Assoc. Ltd.
$202.7M Drewsland/Sp. Twn. Rd. Bridge
  • Alcar Construction Ltd
$58.2M Jacks Hill/Cashew Ridge
  • Build Rite Construction Ltd.
$71.8M Chateau Road
  • Incomparable Enterprise Ltd.
$28M Tivoli Gully
  • S. Greene & Assoc. Ltd
15.6M AckeeWalk/Green  Vale Road
  • General Paving Co. Ltd
$29.6M
$17M
Millsborough Crescent.
Plymouth Drive
  • Lascar Fencing & Constr Ltd
$60.9M Persimmon Gully

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Minister Mike Henry said, ‘with today’s signing we have moved further towards bringing the state of our public road and drainage network back from the extremely bad state which Gustav left them in.”

He noted that under normal circumstances such works would not be done in the busy Christmas season but that the suffering and inconvenience caused by the bad roads in many communities meant that once the hurricane season ended on November 30, efforts had to be made to get the repairs underway.

“So, Christmas or no Christmas, New Year or no New Year, the work is going to be undertaken so that much needed relief will be brought to the affected communities,” he continued.

He urged community members to co-operate so that there would be smooth implementation of the work programmes