Business View Caribbean | May 2019

12 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MAY 2019 “We have to analyze what technology, what different analysis, what different building strategies are going to be used that make the project now sustainable, and how we can transpose that through a learning experience to our local contractors,” he said. In his remarks through an interpreter, General Manager, Overseas Branch, Henan Fifth Construction Group, Riulin Ji, said the joint venture represents a further deepening of the friendship between China and Jamaica. Ji assured that the construction enterprise, which is one of the most successful and well known in China, will work to build the “highest quality houses for Jamaicans,” providing a “professional team, the best quality material, and the strictest management.” For his part, Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Pearnel Charles Jr., said he was pleased with the HAJ’s partnership with the Henan Fifth Group, which is “able to provide the expertise in design and building and financing.” Charles Jr. noted that he is looking forward to the results, “where we know we will share risks but there will be increased capacity and efficiencies and it will all rebound to the benefit of the Jamaican people.” Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament for East Central St. James, Edmund Bartlett, where the development will take place, welcomed the project, which he said is greatly appreciated by his constituents, particularly tourism workers. We have to analyze what technology, what different analysis, what different building strategies are going to be used that make the project now sustainable

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