{"id":16760,"date":"2021-05-27T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=16760"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:28:53","slug":"sellout-golding-blasts-mobay-bypass-exemption-but-holness-says-time-running-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/sellout-golding-blasts-mobay-bypass-exemption-but-holness-says-time-running-out\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SELLOUT!\u2019 Golding blasts MoBay bypass exemption but Holness says time running out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insisting that the Government was on a bad legal footing and accusing the Holness administration of \u201cselling out\u201d the country as it sought to have China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) build the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project, Opposition Leader Mark Golding said the order should be withdrawn.<\/p>\n

The opposition leader argued that for the order to have been valid, the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project should have been approved by Cabinet and Parliament as a national development project.<\/p>\n

Golding said he made checks and no such approval was given by Parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe order itself, which is a signed order seeking to be affirmatively approved by this House and the Senate, doesn\u2019t provide in it any approval of the project as a national development project,\u201d the opposition leader argued.<\/p>\n

Golding contended that the role of the order instead is to exempt the project from the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. The order also seeks to tie CHEC to wage rates agreed by the Joint Industrial Council and impose minimum labour quotas of 90 per cent and 50 per cent for unskilled and technical local workers, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe order is bad on its face and should be withdrawn because it has not been approved by Parliament,\u201d Golding charged.<\/p>\n

Construction of the Montego Bay Perimeter Road Project is expected to begin by late 2022. Unlike other major road projects before it, taxpayers will be paying for its construction upfront.<\/p>\n

The bypass, which involves the construction of 25 kilometres of roadway, consists of two segments.<\/p>\n

These are the 15-kilometre Montego Bay bypass, starting from Ironshore and back around to Bogue Road, and the Long Hill bypass involving the construction of 10 kilometres of highway from Montego Bay down to Montpelier.<\/p>\n

But Attorney General Marlene Malahoo Forte rubbished Golding\u2019s assertions that there was a defect with the order. Quoting the Interpretation Act, she argued that orders do not come in effect until they are published in the Gazette and any date which might have been signed by a minister is inconsequential to the order being in effect.<\/p>\n

Golding further said that there is no compelling need for the procurement rule to be waived for the project.<\/p>\n

He suggested that the competitive bidding process be used as was done to have the East-West Highway built.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy has the Government skirted around ensuring a transparent procurement process since this project has been in the planning stage for a long time now? It seems far too convenient to come here for this request for a waiver of transparent procurement requirement at this eleventh hour,\u201d Golding argued.<\/p>\n

In brushing aside Holness\u2019 argument that it would not be fair to CHEC, which would have done substantial design works in anticipation of leading the project, Golding said he was more concerned about being fair to the Jamaican taxpayer. The project was to be originally backed by Chinese cash.<\/p>\n

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Insisting that the Government was on a bad legal footing and accusing the Holness administration of \u201cselling out\u201d the country as it sought to have China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":16761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[190,124,71],"class_list":["post-16760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-construction","tag-jamaica","tag-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pexels-taras-makarenko-593172-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-4mk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17612,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/andrew-holness-jamaican-interests-being-protected-in-montego-bay-bypass-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":16760,"position":0},"title":"Andrew Holness | Jamaican interests being protected in Montego Bay Bypass project","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"July 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"By virtue of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) framework, we had revised many of our laws to clarify, and to give institutional definition around things like incentives and so forth, and it was a sentiment shared across the floor that this needed to be done. 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