THE SAINT KITTS PRISON PROJECT; A $962m FRAUD FROM ITS INCEPTION

 

An investigation,  conducted by JEFROY MORRISHAW, into the construction of the never-completed SAINT KITTS & NEVIS  REHABILITATION CENTER, more commonly known as the Prison Project, resulted in his conclusion that the project was never properly permitted, and therefore, in his considered opinion, construction should never have commenced. 

Here is a portion his report, which appears, on Facebook, and which in addition to his photographs, is published here with his kind permission:

"The government of St. Kitts-Nevis put out an offer to all OECS member countries citizens/residents to participate in the tender process to design the new rehabilitation center, aka Prison.

This was supposed to be one (1) phase in two (2) parts, financial proposal and technical proposal

What I discovered was, From a field of 6 - 7 applicants, Eustace Hobson architects were the successful architect who won the award to design the complex

Tender documents were submitted including bill of quantities for approval which was approved in principle by the building and planning authority

These documents were to assist the government in assessing the costs of the overall project, which would assist the government in selecting a suitable contractor

My investigation revealed that the architect never submitted a construction document, hence a construction document/permit was never approved by the planning and building authority to construct a complex of that complexity, the client should provide the contractor with approved construction documents, to the best of my knowledge, approved construction documents was never provided to the contractor, the question is? who is the contractor?

It appears as though we have an unlawful construction project that is in violation of our planning and construction regulations in progress, the irony is that, these violations were committed by our government, the former Team Unity Administration and now the new Labour Administration

From my investigation, no construction documents were submitted to the planning board for approval."

The complete construction costs have been estimated to be no more than USD$50 million, but the Saint Kitts Government gave the Chinese developer 22,000 passports, worth USD$962 million; the site was never completed, and it stands abandoned by the Chinese construction crew that illegally began construction. We note that no local workers were retained to assist with the project. Therefore, the project, which we have previously proven fraudulently issued passports worth twenty times the anticipated construction costs, was also a fraud from the inception.

Like a number of other never-completed projects that litter the Saint Kitts countryside, it was never intended to be completed; it allowed the developer, with the assistance of the CIU, to issue an obscene number of files for passports, to defraud the people of Saint Kitts & Nevis.