Work on the Mayaguana airport has come to a halt due to inclement weather and will not be completed until at least the end of February, according to MICAL MP V. Alfred Gray.
The airport, which was being paved in late November, was expected to be completed last month.
"Nothing is happening at the airport at the moment, and for the last three or four weeks nothing has happened," Gray told The Nassau Guardian.
"They (contractors) claim the weather conditions prevented progress. I reluctantly accept that because I really believe better could be done.
"I was told that they would start again in the new year, but I am waiting for the start. I am really very disappointed with the speed with which that airport redevelopment has taken place.
"I want to record my displeasure and I am hoping that the developers will get on with it."
Gray said while developers have claimed weather conditions prevented construction, people work on airports around the world in good or bad weather.
He said the developers simply need to "do what they have to do".
I-Group's Mayaguana Management Company Project Manager Tim Haffner, who was contacted for comment, said, "It was really bad. It just rained all the time and you just can't pave in those conditions".
He said work will pick back up on Monday.
"We'll be ready to fire back up and we will hit it hard," he said.
Work on the airport began not long after the mother, sister and brother-in-law of former Cabinet Minister Sidney Collie were killed when a LeAir plane crashed into their truck on the runway at that airport in April.
Police said they were inside one of two trucks that were using their high beams to guide the nine-seater plane onto the runway, a long-standing practice at the airport at night.
The two trucks were stationed on each side of the runway to light the plane's path as the airport had no lighting.
The lights were not functioning because of the I-Group's ongoing work, Gray previously said.
Under the I-Group agreement, the developers are responsible for the refurbishment of the airport and runway.
The government purchased emergency lights after a tendering process, and has said it will purchase permanent lights.
Work on the airport was delayed in October after an equipment malfunction, Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin said.

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