T&T contractor lands US$243M airport contract in St Lucia

Lo­cal con­trac­tor, NH In­ter­na­tion­al (Caribbean), has se­cured a US$243 mil­lion (EC$666 mil­lion) con­tract to ex­pand St Lu­cia’s Hewanor­ra In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, even as con­struc­tion firms T&T con­tin­ue to raise con­cerns about de­layed pay­ments and the slow roll­out of gov­ern­ment projects.

NH In­ter­na­tion­al was found­ed and is chaired by vet­er­an con­trac­tor Emile Elias, who has been in the con­struc­tion busi­ness for 61 years.

The con­tract, which was signed by NH In­ter­na­tion­al with the St Lu­cia Air and Sea Ports Au­thor­i­ty (SLAS­PA) on Oc­to­ber 20, cov­ers con­struc­tion of a new 274,000-square-foot, three-storey pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nal as an ex­ten­sion of the ex­ist­ing fa­cil­i­ty, along with as­so­ci­at­ed air­side in­fra­struc­ture. Com­ple­tion is tar­get­ed for late 2029.