With the election recount results showing a loss for the incumbent APNU+AFC, the owner of the Liliendaal property where a billion-dollar infectious diseases hospital has been erected and the contractors involved could face a long wait for payment and searing questions as the winner of the polls, the PPP/C has raised a flurry of accountability issues about the project.
It is the current political impasse and the likely change in government that has Jacob Rambarran, owner of the three-acre Liliendaal property currently being transformed from hotel to COVID-19 Hospital, worried as he has not yet been paid for the property which was acquired through compulsory acquisition.
The incumbent APNU+AFC government has not made public the details of the project or who the contractors are and how they were selected.
However, this newspaper understands that there are about eight contractors who the Ministry of Public Health hired to undertake the construction and provide other services for the project.
On April 4, de facto Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, who is Chairman of the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF), told a virtual press conference that the hotel had been identified to be transformed into a dedicated COVID-19 hospital.
