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Ex-BCA chief says 15m to Bahamians for roadworks 'low'
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
A FORMER Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) president yesterday said the 13.7 per cent of work sub-contracted out to Bahamian firms on the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP) "stuck out" as relatively low, and called for "mandatory" local joint venture participation on future such projects.
Describing the project's projected 36.28 per cen...
IDB: 13M 'RETROACTIVE' TO STOP ROADWORKS SHUTDOWN
IDB: 13M 'RETROACTIVE' TO STOP ROADWORKS SHUTDOWN
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
AN ALARMED Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is providing $13 million in retroactive financing to prevent a "cash flow shortfall" from bringing the New Providence Road Improvement Project to a temporary halt, as this would leave Nassau's roads in a "worse" condition than when the project began.
A report on a proposed $65 million IDB loan, necessary t...
Minority report says bias influenced roadworks probe
Minority report says bias influenced roadworks probe
No evidence of waste, inefficiency and unnecessary cost to the public was ever brought before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) during its probe into the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP), said a minority report prepared by government representatives on the committee.
Kwasi Thompson, Pineridge MP and one of two government members on the committee, presented the minority report duri...
The roadwork fiasco
The roadwork fiasco
Dear Editor,
I was indeed disappointed as I read the headline stating the government will need to borrow even more money, millions I should say, to complete the road works which seem as if they will never be done at this rate.
My reaction, perhaps the reaction of many, was: "What? So they're borrowing money for the road works again? Hmm. Ok."
The project is $77 million over budget, in which $6...
The cost of the roadwork
The cost of the roadwork
There were detailed revelations yesterday in the House of Assembly regarding the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP). We all knew it was overbudget, but the amount it is surprising.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the government will have to come up with an additional $77 million in order to complete the project. In 2008, the government signed a $119.9 million contract with Argen...
Baffled by roadworks
Baffled by roadworks
EDITOR, The Tribune.
I CONTINUE to be baffled by the poor management of the New Providence Improvement and Infrastructural Project (NPIIP) as it relates to the road works. Oftentimes, I have written about it.
Something just does not seem to be adding up to me, but yet the beat goes on.
Some weeks ago, when I noticed road workers making markings for a turning lane shoulder on Marathon Road just ...
ROADWORKS ON COURSE FOR SUMMER FINISH
ROADWORKS ON COURSE FOR SUMMER FINISH
By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
THE NEW Providence Road Improvement Project is on target to be completed by the summer, Ministry of Works officials promised yesterday.
Ministry spokeswoman Shenique Albury said despite key roads being re-opened for the Christmas, bringing road works to a halt, the project is still expected to be completed by the second quarter ...
Frustrated with roadwork management
Frustrated with roadwork management
Dear Editor,
The nightmare that is the New Providence roadworks continues to haunt road users. A week or two ago Fox Hill Road, south of the roundabout was scraped and scarified. Unexplainably, the road was left with utility covers exposed, menacingly extending high above the road level. This has left motorists swerving all over the street in an attempt to avoid these dang...
ROADWORKS SUSPENDED TODAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS
ROADWORKS SUSPENDED TODAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS
By KHRISNA VIRGIL
kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
THE New Providence Road Improvement Project will suspend work today to ensure drivers have a "free and easy" time on the streets during the holidays.
Giving an update on the progress of the project yesterday, Works Minister Neko Grant announced that work that will resume on January 5, 2012.
This news comes as the government prepares to open all major ...
New Borrowing and the Lessons of the Roadwork
New Borrowing and the Lessons of the Roadwork
The contract for this version of the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP) was signed in December 2008 and the project was supposed to be done right about now.? But due to various problems, some disclosed and some not, the project drags on.