With several Government projects coming under scrutiny for shabby work and delayed work, Attorney General Anil Nandlall has announced that the administration will be taking strong legal action against contractors who fail to honor their contractual agreements and produce quality work in time.

Appearing on his “Issues in the News” television programme, Mr. Nandlall said the Cabinet has taken a decision to go after contractors who are failing to execute their mandate.

“These are contractors that are issued with contracts from the government and for whatever reason have been breaching those contracts causing tremendous delay in the execution and completion of public works across the country and stalling the government infrastructural development drive,” the Attorney General said.

The Government has been rolling out billions of dollars in contracts for major infrastructural work across the country. In many of those cases, the projects are behind schedule, and in other contractors have been forced to redo their work over unsatisfactory completion.

According to the Attorney General, the Ministry of Finance has been directed to conduct a swift audit to determine who the delinquent contractors are. Once that is determined, that information would be passed to the Attorney General’s chambers who will first notify and then file legal proceedings.

“We cannot continue to have contractors not discharging their contractual obligations in accordance with the contractual specifications. Government will not tolerate substandard work and breach of contractors from contractors who are paid billions of dollars to discharge their contractual obligations,” Mr. Nandlall noted.

The Attorney General said contractors who are performing well and in accordance with their obligations have no reason to worry, but those who are delinquent will have face legal consequences.

Two weeks ago, Second Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo admitted that because of the number of contracts being given out, it is sometimes difficult for the Government to manage all of the contracts, especially for corrupt practices.

The government has also been coming in for strong criticisms over the way contracts are being handed out. In many cases, contractors with no prior experience have been handed hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure and other contracts.

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