For quite sometime residents of Grand Turk have been calling on H.E Governor Todd and the Interim Administration to repair the HJ Robinson high School.
RTC News has learnt that a $1.7m contract to begin the construction of new classrooms, offices sports facilities at the only Government High School on Grand Turk was signed by His Excellency the Governor, Ric Todd, on, Friday, 26 Oct 2012.
Under the terms of the deal J&H Construction will build a new block that contains five new classrooms, and upper floor for administrative purposes and a new basketball court at the HJ Robinson High School.
New funding for the refurbishment of the School was announced in this year’s Budget in the Spring along with a number of other infrastructure projects including a new Reverse Osmosis Plant (RO) for Grand Turk, a new courthouse in the Myrtle Rigby Building, the Middle/North Caicos Causeway and the Millennium Highway resurfacing..
This project had been scheduled to commence in September 2008 but damage from Hurricane IKE both here and across the Island meant that it was stopped due to a previous lack of funds.
In addition to the new construction, the works will entail the removal of rotted timbers and rested steel works and replacing of the necessary materials for the completion of the works on the areas started before September 2008.
The works are due to be completed in six months.
“I take great pride in getting things done,” said Governor Todd. “In my inauguration speech I said I would do everything to ensure that elections happened here in 2012, to develop the economy and to ensure effective and transparent government.
“In this year’s budget, which remains on course to return a surplus, we prioritised capital and maintenance spending and, in particular, a number of infrastructure projects that are essential to the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
In signing this contract we have completed the key civil engineering projects that we set out to do in the Budget.” said Governor Todd.
