Chief Executive Officer (ag) of the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL), Colvin Heath-London has expressed his satisfaction with the renovations and upgrades valued at some $131 million to several of the company’s properties in Linden and Kwakwani.
According to a NICIL release, the acting CEO said that for last year his company undertook to have several main properties enhanced and upgraded to improve and increase the services that they were providing to residents and the general public.
“Last year after reviewing quite a number of our properties, we at NICIL concluded that significant work must be done to ensure that several of these properties, which were abandoned and ignored for several years be returned to their former glory. As such, I undertook it as a mission to ensure that several of these properties were enhanced and improved as we recognised that some of the expected services that these buildings should be providing were not. I must admit that I am very satisfied with what I am seeing as we have completed them in a significant way,” Heath-London was quoted as saying.
He added that his company will continue the trend this year noting that they have already identified several other properties that NICIL will seek to renovate and enhance. He explained that this forms part of the continuation of their mission to upgrade several of their properties to the level and quality that they deserve.
“We were unable to complete all the buildings that we needed to as there are still some more buildings that we intend to work on this year. As such, we will continue this year with a number of major renovations and upgrade,” the CEO assured.
Heath-London disclosed that the renovations and upgrades done in 2019 are in excess of $131 million. He observed that the residents of Kwakwani are elated that the Government Guest House, among other major buildings, is back to its former glory, while being operational. “Several residents have been writing, calling, texting and messaging us as they commend NICIL for rebuilding the Kwakwani Guest House, which was in a very terrible shape. However, with the completion of this guest house, it now stands as a proud primary site for residents there, as it has certainly enhanced and improved the image of Kwakwani,” he said.
