St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister expects international airport to be open during 2014
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St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister expects international airport to be open during 2014

By TDN Wire Staff
January 28, 2014 10:30 A.M



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The international airport under construction.
Kingstowne, St Vincent (TDN) -- Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines has announced that the EC $700 million international airport at Argyle, under construction for the past six years, on the country’s East coast will be completed by the end of this year.

The opening of St Vincent’s international airport will leave Dominica as the only Caribbean island without such a facility.

Gonsalves told a recent sitting of Parliament that late last year the US$28 million terminal building along with the electrical substation was handed over to the International Airport Development Company (IADC), the state company responsible for the construction of the airport by the Taiwanese construction firm.

However Opposition leader Arnhim Eustace has expressed pessimism at a 2014 opening siting the level of disbursement slated for this year, which he claims is way above the IADC’s capacity to implement. “We simply do not have the implementation capacity, he said.

Gonsalves remains confident that it will happen saying that at the end of last year, 89 per cent of the earthworks had already been completed and sea defence works, which began on August 12, 2013, would extend into mid-2014.

At the same time he expected the final layers of asphalt and concrete pavement of the aprons, taxiways, and the 9 000 feet long runway to begin by end- September 2014.

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