The Linden-Mabura Highway was sold to Guyanese as one of the country’s great transformational infrastructure projects, a 121-kilometre road that would open the hinterland, deepen trade with Brazil and finally convert a notoriously difficult corridor into an all-weather highway. But four years after the main construction contract was signed, the project is still unfinished, its original contractual period has expired, and billions of dollars have continued to appear in successive national budgets.

The public now deserves a full accounting. According to official records from the Caribbean Development Bank, the main civil works contract was signed on **May 20, 2022** with Brazilian contractor Construtora Queiroz Galvao S.A. for **GYD $32.501 billion**. The contract duration was explicitly stated as **three years**. ([Caribbean Development Bank][1])

A three-year contract signed in May 2022 should, on its face, have reached the end of its contractual period around **May 2025**. It did not. By February 2026, the Government’s own Department of Public Information was reporting that the highway was **86 per cent complete**, with 100 kilometres of the 121-kilometre stretch paved. Government was then working toward a completion target in 2026. ([DPI][2])