One of the Democratic Labour Party Government’s prized capital works projects has come to a screeching halt.
Work on the long awaited St John Polyclinic and adjoining facility that is slated to bear the name of late Prime Minister and long-standing Member of Parliament for the parish, David Thompson, has been stopped due to a serious cash flow problem in central Government.
According to reliable sources, the project’s main contractor, ADC Building and Maintenance, was owed almost $3 million before the red light was put up by Government.
“There was a stage where two or three workers would be on the site for a long time, and the main contractors remained to do their work, expecting finances to start coming in, but it never did, so a decision to stop had to be made,” an informed source close to the situation told the DAILY NATION yesterday.
