Atlantic Hotel Inc. (AHI), owner of the Georgetown Marriott Hotel project, yesterday said it conducted a preliminary inquiry into a report appearing in the Kaieteur News, Tuesday, 21st October, 2014, headlined “Marriott’s Chinese workers caught dumping drums of waste oil at seawall” and discovered that expired material was dumped without authority
In statement, AHI noted that Shanghai Construction Group (SCG) is contracted by AHI, for the design and construction of the hotel project. It said that SCG reported that labourers employed by SCG, without authorization of SCG’s management, disposed of the contents of three barrels of cement retardant material, which were in storage pending removal from the site as expired material.
Tourists had apparently witnessed the dumping and had videoed it.
AHI said it has instituted measures through its site administration to prevent a repetition and is fully cooperating with the Guyana Environmental Protection Agency (GEPA), whose team visited the site immediately following the publication of the report in the Kaieteur News. The GEPA will continue to further investigate this matter.
The contractual agreement between AHI and SCG requires SCG to meet minimum LEED (US Green Building Council) certification standards before the hotel is taken over from the contractor.
