Some five years after the contract to prepare the Haags Bosch sanitary landfill in Eccles, East Bank Demerara was awarded to BK International in association with Puran Brothers Disposal Service, the Ministry of Local Government announced a November 15 completion date, at a press conference Friday last.
The landfill originally had a completion date of a year.
Minister Norman Whittaker stated that operation and construction aspects of the project continue and work has improved significantly. “We have met with the contractor, expressed our concern with the pace of construction,” Whittaker said, “and we have a revised completion date for the works, November 15, 2014.” He said the ministry has been informed by its officers who had visited the project site that works continue on the pump station, the force main and the drainage layer of cell number one. He further mentioned that the ministry had engaged the contractor, “at the level of