Communications and Works Minister Mark Vanterpool updated the House of Assembly on the state of “pending infrastructural works” across the Virgin Islands on Monday.
“The majority of the district projects, Madame Speaker, many for which contracts have been let, are for road paving and improvements, drainage solutions and the construction of retaining walls amounting to $13,344,636.77,” Mr. Vanterpool said.
The projects “are at varying levels of completion,” he added, including some where work has not begun “mostly due to lack of funds.”
In light of “the current fiscal and economic climate,” certain projects were prioritised, including the widening of the Manse Road near Russell Hill in Road Town, the “national sewerage project” and the Johnsons Ghut drainage project, which his ministry acquired from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour, he said.
See the Dec. 21, 2011 edition for full coverage.