Published 14 June 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
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Excavator At Second Cruise Pier Topples Into Sea; Driver Escaped.
An operator of an excavator contracted to work on the controversial second cruise ship pier luckily escaped a tragic accident on site, when the heavy machine toppled into the sea last Friday, 8th June, 2018.
The excavator allegedly toppled into the deep water while removing a huge boulder that protected the bulkhead at Port Zante.
The mishap resulted in the driver being trapped underwater. Sources who were on site disclosed that the driver had to kick out the glass window of the excavator to avoid drowning.
To this date, the excavator remains submerged and work on the new pier has stopped.
Unfortunately, there has been no comment on the incident from neither the contractors of the controversial project nor the St. Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority (SCASPA), the Minister of Infrastructure, Hon. Ian Patches Liburd, the Minister of Tourism, Hon. Lindsay Grant, the Minister of Labour, Hon. Vance Amory and the St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force.
The second pier is scheduled to cost a whopping EC$129.6 million under the Timothy Harris-led government, a EC$43.2 million increase from the original budgeted cost by the then governing St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party administration, which was EC$86.4 million.
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