Edghill rejects claims of discrimination in contract awards

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, during discussions with the Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (DPI photo)

The Ministry of Public Works has not been issuing contracts in a discriminatory manner as is being alleged by A Partnership for National Unity  (APNU), according to Minister Juan Edghill. 

“APNU seek to create in the minds that [PPP/C] have some kind of discrimination when awarding contracts…. It is rubbish and must be debunked,” Edghill stated in a video yesterday on Facebook. He noted that when there are more than a thousand road work contracts being executed simultaneously the ministry has to engage at least several hundred contractors and if it were the case that contracts were awarded to the PPP/C’s family and friends, then the PPP/C family is quite large.