Published 20 February 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
By: Media House
Ian Patches Liburd: “I don’t know, I don’t know who is demolishing the building”
Basseterre, St Kitts, February 20, 2018 – Minister of Public Infrastructure, Post, Urban Development and Transport, Hon. Ian Patches Liburd says he does not know who has been awarded the contract to demolish the old Scotch building, which formerly housed the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis and lately the Department of Consumer Affairs.
A source some the building is being demolished at a cost of EC$2.5 million.
Asked by Democrat columnist, Gene Howell about the demolition of the building below Government Headquarters on Church Street, during a radio programme, Minister Liburd said he has no information on who was awarded the contract to take down that building.
“I do not know who the contractors are at this point in time, but I will get that information for you,” he promised.
Reminded that he “was the Minister of Works and something like that would come through” him, Minister Liburd responded: “If I tell you, I don’t know, I don’t know. I understand it is being done under a particular ministry, but I have to get that sorted out.”
Government reportedly paid EC$100,000 to demolish the building which housed the printer on Church Street and EC$90,000 to take down the pavilion at the old Sandy Point Recreation Ground.
A significant sum was also paid to a brother of Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris to demolish the old health center in Tabernacle. Harris’ hometown.
Photo 1 – The old Scotch House building, former home of the Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Photo 2 – Hon. Ian Patches Liburd
