{"id":17971,"date":"2018-07-19T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=17971"},"modified":"2018-07-19T11:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:01:43","slug":"millions-in-cost-overruns-at-adoms-and-treasury-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/millions-in-cost-overruns-at-adoms-and-treasury-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions in cost overruns at ADOMS and Treasury buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than two years after it’s scheduled completion, and after millions in cost overruns, the\u00a0Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services & Merchant Shipping is asking the government for more money to complete its headquarters.<\/div>\n
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The unfinished ADOMS Building on Factory Road across from the Sagicor Building started in 2013 under the former United Progressive Party government.<\/div>\n
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The government now admits that it “has been plagued with cost overruns.”<\/div>\n
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According to its own figures, It was to have cost $17 million dollars and take less than 24 months to construct.<\/div>\n
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“The ADOMS building has cost\u00a0nearly $30 million dollars thus far\u00a0and has been under construction for more than 48 months,” notes from the Cabinet reveal.<\/div>\n
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The building manager has requested yet another $1 million dollars to complete the building by the end of 2018.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile, the unfinished Treasury Building at the corner of St. Mary\u2019s Street and Independence Avenue is to be completed by November 2018, according to the government.<\/div>\n
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The building started under the UPP in 2012, and was to have been completed almost four years ago; “it has been plagued with unusual cost overruns.”<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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The government did not state the amount.<\/div>\n
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