Although Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Hotels (AHI) Winston Brassington has said that control over hiring for the construction of the Marriott Hotel was a concession to the contractor for a lower cost, this is not reflected in their contract that was made public by the government.
In the wake of criticism of the exclusion of Guyanese workers on the Marriott Hotel construction site in the months since construction began, Brassington recently told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that contractor Shanghai Construction Group (SCG) initially bid US$65M but it was able to lower the cost to US$51M with