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Browne says Blue Ocean outperforms international contractor in Parham port works
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has defended the performance of the locally-based dredging company Blue Ocean, stating that the firm has proven to be more productive than a well-known international contractor.
Speaking on Pointe FM on Saturday, Browne responded to criticism surrounding Blue Ocean, which the government partly owns, and compared its output to that of Dutch Dredging, a foreign firm currently working on the Parham port.
“The rocks there are extremely tough,” the Prime Minister said, referring to the dredging challenges in Parham. “Even the new firm that we brought in… their productivity is not even as high as that of our local firm.”
Browne noted that Dutch Dredging’s work has not surpassed that of Blue Ocean, despite perceptions that international firms may be more capable. “We should be a little more respectful of local talent,” he said.
He also underscored the cost-effectiveness of using Blue Ocean for ongoing and future dredging operations. “If we had Dutch Dredging dredging the harbour, what ordinarily would run us maybe close to $20 million—we would have probably about $50, $60 million U.S. It would have been beyond our means.”
Browne added that the government plans to continue using Blue Ocean for light dredging and maintenance in areas such as Fort James and other marina developments.
He described the government’s investment in the firm as a “visionary one” that would help keep infrastructure costs manageable.
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If the pm defend the dredging he is defending hadeed, and that mean campaign money safe, because even the media is scared and has been tip toeing around this issue, the question is why the tax payers of Antigua and in general APUA has to pay the bill to dredge the harbor to accommodate a private business interest like the hadeeds make monies from the same entity APUA who has to pay hadeed handsomely with those exorbitant and onerous secretive contracts that the public never see?
Any government minister have shares in Blue Ocean Dredging Company. Who are the owners of the contracted equipment. Never knew it was owned by local shareholders.
Please listen for Shaggy to begin singing, “it wasn’t me”.
Did they not know the capabilities and competence of the dredging firm before they employed it?
Gassy is the PM. He is the finance minister. Every monetary decision stops with Gassy.
Tomorrow you will hear him try to pull out of the decision to employ the dredging firm.
When Giselle was arrested and charged in the Boardnif Education 6000 pages report he said it wasn’t him.
When former ministers were arrested and charged in the bus scandal he said it wasn’t him.
So listen out. Listen out. He is pulling himself out of that decision to.
Yes. Another failed decision.
Hope we are not putting even more money into Hadeeds hands!! Aren’t the chief financiers of the UPP? I urgently need answers to these two questions. Tired of the games that only serve to entrench and enrich OUTSIDERS and ENEMIES OF THE STATE. Don’t tell me nonsense like the Hadeeds are Antiguans. They are ARABS fullstop!
So every criticism now is ‘bad mind’ and ‘political’?
All now I not seeing no proper update on how the work affecting the coastline!