A whooping $785M in contracts was given the green light earlier this week when Cabinet met to discuss Guyana’s developmental agenda.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday told members of the media at a post-Cabinet press briefing that Cabinet had given its no objection earlier in the week to certain contracts within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and the Ministry of Education. These were valued at $586,247,000.
According to the minister, this was for the project execution phase of the water supply and sanitation improvement programme of the Guyana Water Inc. He noted that this is for the consultants to do the work under that contract. The contract was awarded to Hydroplan Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbH – a Germany-based company, in association with E&A Consultant Inc.
In addition, Harmon revealed that Cabinet referred several contracts to a sub-committee of Cabinet for public infrastructure when it became clear to Cabinet that some of the awards of these contracts did not seem to have had the sort of due diligence required.
On that basis, the contracts were referred to the sub-committee for its report on its findings to be provided to Cabinet.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) too benefitted from the no objection of Cabinet for which the sum of $34M awarded for the construction of stables for its mounted branch of the Police Force
Cabinet also gave its no-objection for the procurement of uniform items for the police force and that contract was awarded to Marva Flare Caribbean Limited. (Ravin Singh)