$5.1M for ‘vegetation management’

The response in the name of Public Utilities Minister Fitzgerald Hinds, showed that out of the 118 contractors paid by the Commission during this period, a total of 18 other contractors received multiple payments for this kind of work.

Kato’s General Contractors, JS Bison and High Risk Tree Removers received payments of $2.7 million, $2.1 million and $1.9 million respectively for vegetation management.

TTEC also paid approximately $200,000 for bees/pest control in this period. The payments for this work was divided amongst three contractors - Innovative Pest Control Limited, Integrative Pest Control Services Limited and Sunildath Maharajh. Another written response circulated in the House last Friday, showed a total of 62 recipients of homes distributed in San Fernando by the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) on September 10, 2016.