$437,000,000.00 million dollars (223%) in cost overruns and Mr. London and the THA Executive is not called to account to the People of Tobago by a Council of Responsible Concerned Citizens. NO OPENING DATE FOR SCARBOROUGH LIBRARY - Sunday, 09 November 2014 00:47 Written by Elizabeth Williams IT has been over ten years, and to date the People’s National Movement led Tobago House of Assembly is yet to deliver the Shaw Park Cultural Complex and the Scarborough Library. The Secretary of the Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Gary Melville says he remains hopeful that both projects will be handed over to the people of Tobago by the end of the year. The Scarborough Library initial completion cost was $28 million. Today, this has risen to $86 million. Ten years and counting, the project is yet to be completed. “MTS (National Maintenance Training and Security Company Limited) has informed us that the main contractor on the project will hand over the building to the project managers MTS in the coming week,” states Melville. He says the fire suppression system and the information communication technology systems are to be ready by mid-November. “We at the Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities have every confidence that while we cannot give the public a set date today for the opening of the library, that within an outside time of 6-8 weeks, that we would be able to have a final opening day within that particular period,” says Melville. Meanwhile, the Shaw Park Cultural Complex, originally budgeted for $196 million, is now projected to cost a whopping $634 million, and Melville says that while there continues to be challenges, work on the project has accelerated. The main contractor is Yorke Structures Limited, with NIPDEC as project manager. “The Tobago House of Assembly is leaving no stone unturned, and resources and systems are being applied towards the completion of those works by the end of this year,” says Melville.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:11:32 +0000
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