Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to­day toured three UDe­COTT project sites in Port-of-Spain.

Dr Row­ley met with UDe­COTT chair­man, Noel Gar­cia, the com­pa­ny’s Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Tam­i­ca Charles Phillips and Di­vi­sion­al Man­ag­er of Con­struc­tion and En­gi­neer­ing, Sarah Scoon at the first site of the tour, the Min­istry of Health head­quar­ters at the cor­ner of Jern­ing­ham Av­enue, Queen’s Park East.

He was ac­com­pa­nied by Min­is­ter of Health, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh and the Min­istry’s Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Asif Ali.

Dr Row­ley ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion at the pace and sta­tus of works for UDe­COTT’s first ever Build-Own-Lease-Trans­fer (BOLT) project.

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The tour then moved to the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Cen­tral Block, where ex­ec­u­tives of the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty, Act­ing CEO Ma­jor An­tho­ny Blake and Med­ical Di­rec­tor Dr Sha­hee­ba Bar­row joined the walk-through.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of two ex­pe­ri­enced lo­cal con­trac­tors Kall­co Lim­it­ed and Uni­ver­sal Struc­tures Lim­it­ed re­spon­si­ble for the De­mo­li­tion of the Old Cen­tral Block and Struc­tur­al works gave in-depth de­tails of the cur­rent sta­tus of the works.

The de­sign team mem­bers present Mark Fran­cois of Be­ston Con­sult­ing Lim­it­ed and Richard Teelucks­ingh of EN­CO ad­vised the Prime Min­is­ter of the rel­a­tive seis­mic codes gov­ern­ing the new con­struc­tion.

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The Prime Min­is­ter was on hand to wit­ness a con­crete pour on the first lev­el of Tow­er 1 of the New Cen­tral Block.

It was then on to the Des­pers Pan The­atre project site, where UDe­COTT’s Se­nior Ar­chi­tect, Mar­lon Charles gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on the on­go­ing works, stat­ing that the project would be com­plet­ed well in time for next year’s Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions.

The con­trac­tor on this project, Ju­nior Charles Con­struc­tion and Trans­port Ser­vices was al­so on hand to an­swer ques­tions.

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