Less than 24 hours after the Coromandel Village Road was paved, it collapsed after a Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) line ruptured.

The collapse happened on Wednesday evening.

Cedros Councillor Shankar Teelucksingh said, “Just yesterday (Wednesday) the Ministry of Works completed works along the road and some heavy machinery equipment passed along it and it ruptured a WASA line. And this rupture was at...

China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has been awarded a $221.7 million contract by the National infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) to build the controversial Curepe Interchange, the state company’s chairman Herbert George has confirmed.

The deal with CRCC was signed off on only recently after it won the bid and contract, bringing an end to three years of controversy and delays that had...