The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has instituted legal proceedings against LGS Barns General Building Construction and Civil Engineering for failing to fulfill a multi-million dollar contract of replacing aged transmission lines in the Bel Air Park area.
According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), Minister of Housing and Water Colin Croal announced the litigation at the commissioning of Republic Street, Bel Air on Friday. He explained that the company was contracted in November 2017 to replace 2,000 meters of GWI’s transmission lines in Bel Air Park, at a cost of $108 million. The sum of the four-month contract was subsequently revised to $123 million.
DPI reported that three years later in 2020, the company failed to complete the work but was paid handsomely in eight tranches.