Ja: Local contractors seriously lapsing

FINANCE AND Planning Minister, Dr. Omar Davies has given foreign contractors employed to carry out out projects in Jamaica a better rating than their Jamaican counterparts.

Dr. Davies, who was speaking at a meeting in Spaldings, Clarendon, recently, said some of our local contractors cannot measure up to the efficiency standards of the overseas contractors.

"It's a reality. We have seen situations. The Chinese bid for a one-year construction project at the University of Technology, and because they were coming from so far, they came late, so they started three months late, but they delivered it two months in advance. I am not going to use no racial thing, but I do not expect no black man to work like that," noted Dr. Davies.

As the character in Miller's Crossing said, "It's all about ethics." In this case, work ethic.