‘Many people doubted that a facility of this size could be completed on time and within budget’.
Barbados Advocate 16th October 2007
‘Last month Attorney-General announced that the facility, designed to house 1,250 inmates would now be completed by the end of January (2007) and not year-end as originally projected’.
Nation 8th October 2006
‘The new prison under construction at Dodds, St. Philip, will not be ready ahead of Cricket World Cup 2007 as originally planned by contractors and Government’.
You can go on, just Google Dodds prison and you will see a whole bunch of stated completion date objectives.
As to the ‘within budget’!
There still not been a satisfactory explanation why the former Attorney-General would mislead Parliament by quoting a figure of $100 million.
Nation 29 June 2005
‘Mottley said Government would have to await the completion of the designs to quantity the finance of the prison, but she estimated it would cost around $100 million’.
‘Meanwhile, sources revealed that the second bid was submitted by a consortium made of Jada Builders, Rotherley Construction, Rayside Construction, C. O. Williams Construction, Williams Industries, FirstCaribbean International Bank, Barbados National Bank and mega-billion dollar British construction firm, Carrilian, which builds and operate prisons in the United Kingdom. That proposal carried a price-tag of approximately $120 million in a 25-year BOLT – build, operate, lease and transfer – arrangement’.
Nation Newspaper
Now I wonder what currency that consortium was quoting in?
Adrian Loveridge
16 October 2007
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