IT WAS GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE to follow the financial rules on tendering that resulted in taxpayers footing the excessive costs associated with two major state-owned housing projects.
This was the charge of St Michael South East Member of Parliament Santia Bradshaw, as she referenced the special audit of the Auditor General into the National Housing Corporation’s (NHC) high-rise housing estates at Valery and The Grotto, St Michael.
The Opposition MP was speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday on a measure for the vesting and disposal of lands where the London Bourne Towers on Bay Street are situated, to the Ministry of Housing and Lands. (GE)
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