Written By Chriseana Ramrekha
EDUCATION Minister Priya Manickchand has challenged all contractors to honour their contractual obligations and not skim off the Government’s money, by delaying the completion of buildings and producing poor quality work. 

She issued the challenge on Monday while addressing the audience at the commissioning of an additional wing at the Fort Wellington Secondary School, West Coast Berbice.
The completion of the new section was delayed because a contractor failed in his duties, forcing the ministry to terminate that contract.
“So make sure you finish these buildings on time; make sure you do it with the kind of quality that you would like to have your own children enjoy; make sure you don’t skim off the Government’s money and try to make as much as you can on the contract, so you give us poor materials and poor work,” she urged the contracted personnel.
Manickchand said the country is at a stage where it is building and expanding and making sure that the children are comfortable and the new part of that school is an example of how persons do not treat education as a priority.
“And so, we give them money to do something and then some contractor comes along, doesn’t believe that he has the duty to be a good citizen and finish the building on time and it inconveniences everybody,” she pointed out.
According to Minister Manickchand, the Government of Guyana has the greatest of intentions and matches that intention with political will and financial investments.
She maintained that contractors who do not fulfill their contractual obligations will be shocked out of the education sector and the ministry is going to make sure that it gets quality work done by persons who can produce it.