Contracts were on Tuesday signed for the construction of the St Rose’s High School in Georgetown and the Yarrowkabra Secondary School on the Soes-dyke-Linden Highway.
According to a release from the Ministry of Education, both projects went through the tendering process and the contract to construct the St. Rose’s High School was awarded to Shandong Dejian International of China. The project is scheduled to last 19 months with a defects liability period of one year. The school will be constructed at a cost of $515M. The release said that it will have a three-storey building, separate sanitary block, modern classrooms, a canteen block, modern data facilities, laboratories and a lift. It will have the capacity to accommodate 350 to 400 students.
The release said that the contract for the construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School was awarded to R. Bassoo and Sons and is scheduled to be completed in 18 months with a defects liability period of one year. That school will be constructed at a cost of $790M. The school will have nine buildings complete with the requisite laboratories, designated space for industrial arts, a main lecture hall and other auxiliary buildings. This school will be able to accommodate 800 students, the release said.
Contracts had been previously awarded for the construction of both schools but these had been terminated because of delays and the projects retendered.
Kalitech Inc. is the consultancy firm on the St Rose’s High School project while Vikab Engineering will be working with the Yarrowkabra Secondary School project.
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand during Monday’s signing ceremony said that the Ministry of Education and the Government of Guyana have a “strict posture” with contractors as it relates to the completion of projects according to contract. She said that unreasonable delays will not be tolerated as was seen in other situations whereby contracts were ended when contractors failed to deliver.
