The National Newspaper of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
FRIDAY,
MARCH 23, 2018
VOLUME 112, No.12
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Left: A handshake between PM Dr. Ralph Gonsalves and Minister Julian Juarez Cadenas, of Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signals that the project has been signed, sealed and delivered.
The Mexico-SVG Bridge (i.e. the reconstructed Cumberland Bridge) is the longest bridge in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
BRIDGE AT SPRING VILLAGE OPENED
water associated with flows down the ANOTHER BRIDGE AMONG Cumberland river. MANY which warranted According to Harris, rehabilitation/ the abutments used to reconstruction following hold up the bridge are the passage of the trough buried three to six feet system in 2013, was deep in pyroclastic officially handed over to material, and the beams the government and used are pre-tension people of this country last beams which conform to Tuesday. the American Association The bridge, dubbed of State and Highway the ‘Mexico-SVG Bridge’, Transportation Officials commonly referred to as (AASHTO) standards, the Cumberland Bridge, the benchmark for bridge and which was destroyed designs throughout the in 2013, is now rebuilt, world. ready for use and, The pre-tension beams according to those who were designed by the worked on the project, contractors and boasts a number of firsts. constructed locally. According to Cecil Rameshwar Mahabir, Harris, Senior Engineer Managing Director, in the Ministry of Trinidad Contractors Ltd Transport and Work, it is — the contractors — the longest bridge in the explained that the country, spanning some company he represents is 82 feet, and it is the first well into the area of such design and designing and building construction contract pre-tension beams. awarded. This way, the project The obvious feature of saves time and money. the new piece of “We believe the work infrastructure is that it to be of high standard; it now allows for freeis an improvement to the flowing two-way traffic steel beams as was access, and it boasts a suggested by the client,” pedestrian sidewalk. Mahabir said. The design and construction were done to Continued on Page 3. withstand the volumes of by DAYLE DASILVA
MEET THE CONTESTANTS IN THE 2018 MISS SVG PAGEANT L-R: Criscione Morgan (Miss Mustique Company Ltd.), Shellisa Nanton (Miss Lotto), Cameisha Foster (Miss Vincentian Chocolate), Azanie Lavia (Miss GECCU), Morrissia Williams (Miss Massy Stores SVG Ltd.), Nazira Graham (Miss Metrocint General Insurance Company Ltd.) and Solange Fernandez (Miss Flow).