Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC has acted upon the instructions of President Irfaan Ali and issued instructions to ministries on the establishment of units to assess where projects are experiencing unjustifiable delays or there is evidence of poor work.
A statement from the Attorney General follows:
I act upon the instructions of His Excellency President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali. You are hereby advised to immediately make functional within your respective Ministries and Project Units, a unit to specifically and dedicatedly evaluate the execution of all contracts being undertaken in your respective sectors, in order to assess the performance of the contractors in the discharge of their contractual duties and obligations.
Once unjustifiable delays, substandard works and other such fundamental breaches of contracts are observed, then clauses of the contracts dealing with notification of the contractor of the alleged breaches, and remedial provisions dealing with sanctions such as liquidated damages, forfeiture of securities and termination etc., should be immediately invoked and activated.
As part of this initiative and to support the work of these proposed units, a Contract Compliance Unit has been established at the Attorney General’s Chambers and Ministry of Legal Affairs. The functions of this Unit will be to provide the relevant legal advice and appropriate guidance and actions when requested, including, the filing of legal proceedings when necessary, just and expedient so to do. All engagements with this Unit can be done via email ccu@mola.gov.gy. The Unit can also be contacted on telephone number 225-3607.