Ramhit firm withdrew from HDC housing project, Swaratsingh says

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Mooti­lal Ramhit and Sons Con­tract­ing Ltd with­drew from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s (HDC) bil­lion-dol­lar hous­ing plan be­cause the com­pa­ny was not in­ter­est­ed in the project, Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh said.

Swarats­ingh made the com­ment in the Sen­ate on Mon­day while wind­ing up de­bate on the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Amend­ment Bill, 2026. The bill was passed with Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Wade Mark’s cast­ing vote af­ter the vote was tied at 15-15, with Gov­ern­ment sen­a­tors vot­ing in favour and the Op­po­si­tion’s six sen­a­tors and nine in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors vot­ing against it.