(Jamaica Gleaner) The Chairman of China Communications Construction Company – the parent company of China Harbour Engineering Company – is due in Jamaica next week to sign what Transport, Works and Housing Minister Dr Omar Davies has called a significant agreement.
“This is a major company in the world … . When the chairman is here, there will be some agreement signed which will have significant importance to the future of Jamaica’s economy,” Davies said on Wednesday.
The minister, who was guarded about the nature of the agreement that will be signed, was speaking on Wednesday during a Jamaica-China Friendship Association forum at the Wyndham Kingston hotel in New Kingston.
China Harbour is the company implementing the US$400-million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme. The company has also expressed an interest in taking over the Mount Rosser leg of Highway 2000 and completing the north-south link for the highway.
Davies said the Government would be seeking to further improve the country’s infrastructure, resulting in tremendous economic benefit.
“The first example of this will be the investment to complete the Mount Rosser bypass and then the construction of the other two sections, which will be the north-to-south link of Highway 2000,” Davies said.
