{"id":3588,"date":"2017-11-08T07:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2017-11-07T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:22:58","slug":"georgetown-prison-contract-was-annulled-to-have-it-transferred-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/georgetown-prison-contract-was-annulled-to-have-it-transferred-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Prison contract was annulled to have it transferred- Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u2013 says Ministry was only providing \u201ctechnical support\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>The Public Infrastructure Ministry has come out to admit that a tender to reconstruct the administrative blocks of the Georgetown Prison was annulled. But pushing back against allegations of cronyism, the Ministry is claiming that this was to allow the project to be transferred.<\/p>\n<p>According to Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson, in a statement, the process was annulled because the Ministry was not the subject Ministry. According to the Minister, his Ministry was just providing \u201ctechnical support\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c The process was indeed annulled; the cries of cronyism by the Opposition are more of their mischievous attempts to spread falsehoods. The annulment was to allow for the project to fall under the relevant Ministry, which in this case is the Ministry of Public Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Opposition presents these documents that are indeed official, because the Ministry publicly puts the information out there; this is information that is in the public domain,\u201d Patterson continued, going on to accuse the political Opposition of half-truths.<\/p>\n<p>At his last press conference, Opposition Leader Dr Bharrat Jagdeo supplied media operatives with a paper trail for other contracts which clearly showed the Ministry annulling the processes.<\/p>\n<p>One such project involved the multi-million-dollar reconstruction of the administrative blocks for the Georgetown Prison \u2013 being undertaken by the Public Infrastructure Ministry and not the Public Security Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inewsguyana.com\/georgetown-prison-contract-was-annulled-to-have-it-transferred-patterson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 Stabroek News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 says Ministry was only providing \u201ctechnical support\u201d The Public Infrastructure Ministry has come out to admit that a tender to reconstruct the administrative blocks of the Georgetown Prison was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3654,"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":[116,146,125,158],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-guyana","tag-procedures","tag-public-procurement","tag-works"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Georgetown-Prison-Guyana-Stabroek-News.jpg?fit=1280%2C853&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-VS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3587,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/proof-infrastructure-ministry-tampering-with-contracts\/","url_meta":{"origin":3588,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Proof\u2019 Infrastructure Ministry tampering with contracts","author":"Michele Marius","date":"November 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026has a track record and I am giving the evidence of it \u2013 Jagdeo The Public Infrastructure Ministry under the helm of Minister David Patterson, is accused of deliberately tampering with the procurement process in order to ensure contracts are handed out to favoured contractors. 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