Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has launched a blistering attack on the Nelson Louison-led construction outfit known as Consolidated Contractors Company Caribbean Inc (CCCC-I) which has been dogged by too many delays in completing projects for the State.

The Prime Minister pointed fingers at the local company after his predecessor in office, Keith Mitchell, the former Political Leader of the opposition New National Party (NNP) accused the Congress administration of overlooking local companies for foreign firms in the award of contracts for several major road projects on the island.

The ex-Grenadian leader also told a sitting of Parliament that Congress was in breach of the Public Procurement act over the manner in which it was awarding contracts to companies in the Construction Sector.

PM Dickon Mitchell reminded the opposition Member of Parliament for St George North-west that under a past NNP regime that he headed, the Kuwaiti-based construction firm CCC, the forerunner of CCCC-I had “a complete monopoly on road construction in Grenada so that no other contractor be they foreign or local got the capacity or opportunity to do any major road work.”

According to the Prime Minister, for over three years his government had worked with the CCCC-I group which was the only “local contractor” to do road works on the island.

He said that the Louison outfit was awarded the road contract from the Woburn/ Cliff to Woodlands and three years later it is still to complete the scope of work.

He also said that the same company was awarded the contract to repave the True Blue Road which was originally built for Expo ’69 under the labour party government of late Grenadian Prime Minister Sir Eric Matthew Gairy and urged to visit the site himself and see “the quality of the road in True Blue today.”

“You can go and look at True Blue – there is still outstanding work still to be done,” he remarked.

“So, this is the same CCCC-I which has the only quarry in Mt Hartman, not operating it according to the Environmental standards. All the neighbours and residents are threatening to sue the government, threatening to sue them – you could never get the aggregates on time.

“There are all kinds of concerns (about CCCC-I). They had the monopoly; they had the opportunity to demonstrate to the people of Grenada that they could continue with that monopoly by delivering.

“…Three years later we still can’t finish the road from the Cliff to Woburn and there are residents there who have not been able to drive to their homes for three years.”

Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell also mentioned another contract awarded to CCCC-I to do the pipe laying work on the Concord water project and that project “is significantly delayed.”

He recalled that the funding for the project was committed by the David Cameron-led British Conservative government under the Keith Mitchell-controlled NNP regime in the 2013-18 period and that Grenada virtually lost it as the then administration in St George did not start the project which was in the pipeline for about eleven years.

“…. This project should have been finished (by CCCC-I) in January. The project not finished on time, extension of time granted to June, extension of time gone onto September and now the funders are saying come the end of 30th of September the project (is) not finished, we will not extend the funding,” he said.

According to the Prime Minister, the reality is that the government is facing the prospects of a shortfall of about $12.5 million if the British cut-off funding which the administration will have to find to complete the project awarded to CCCC-I.

The NDC boss also touched on several contracts worth over EC$80 million given to the Trinidad-based Hanover Construction Ltd by the 2018-22 NNP government of Keith Mitchell to do a number of farm road projects on the island.

He specifically questioned whether La Borie, part of the St George South-east Constituency of then former Public Utilities Minister and NNP Number Two, Gregory Bowen can be considered as a Farm Road.

He also questioned whether there was any bidding process used when Hanover got all 12 farm roads under the NNP regime.

PM Dickon Mitchell listed a number of small and medium-sized local contractors who were hired under Congress in a bidding process with the Procurement Board to do a number of projects around the island and made it clear that these contracts are listed on the Procuremant Board website.

He mentioned Kenny Trucking & Equipment to do upgrade work at the Sauteurs Health Centre ($4.6 million), another involved the Perdmontemps/Vincennes Road given to a local contractor, as well as the upgrade of the Grand Bras medical station ($1.8 million), Calliste Government School, and an Anglican School in Grenville.

The Prime Minister charged that the Construction sector is actually “over-heating” in Grenada under Congress as both skilled and unskilled workers are hard to find.

He said that a lot of the local companies do not have the paving equipment to do this type of work unlike the foreign firms now on the island.

Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell accused NNP’s Keith Mitchell of not giving local companies the opportunities when in office to build their capacities as he had given all road construction projects to Hanover.

He called on local construction companies to build capacity as they need to invest in equipment, training and better financial management in order “to get to the place where they too can not only work in Grenada but go out too and be able to bid for projects in St Vincent, St Lucia, Dominica and other parts of the OECS.”

PM Dickon Mitchell also slammed the former NNP boss by reminding him that the Congress government had provided an opportunity for local firms to bid for projects in which they had to source their own funding in order to qualify.

He said: “…In 2025, the government issued Expressions of Interest publicly to all and sundry who were interested in Designing, Financing and Building the packets of roads that we have been talking about – all contractors, locals, regional and international had the opportunity to bid.

“Four responses were received – there were no responses from any local contractor. Of the four responses – one never did show any interest – we called and they never responded to us,” he added.

The Prime Minister told Parliament all bids were competitive for these road projects from the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) to the Sugar Mill Roundabout, as well as from Sugar Mill to the Woburn/Cliff area, the Cliff to Westerhall Point, and inland from Old Westerhall Junction to the St Paul’s Police Station.

He also pointed at another competitive bid for the award of the road project from De Caul gas station in Tempe to Mt Cuma Junction and also the Mabouya Landslip in St John.

He said that all the bids received were evaluated, and contracts issued and as such the work on these roads have started.

Two contracts were signed on March 19, 2026, one for the Mabouya Landslip costing the government $22.3 million and the other for $25.2 million for paving the road leading to MBIA.

The Cliff to Westerhall Point Road contract is for $52.8 million.

Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said that these main roads have to be upgraded and done quickly in order to get traffic moving especially where the public is concerned.