Back on track

The University of Macau will receive approximately MOP14.54 million to oversee quality control on the construction of Mong Ha Social Housing Phase II, as well as Mong Ha Sports Pavilion, according to a dispatch in the Official Gazette made public yesterday.
The total amount is to be disbursed in six annual installments, from 2017 to 2022, with the first amount paid out this year equalling MOP1.29 million, rising to MOP3.12 million between 2018 and 2021 and falling to MOP779,205 in its final year.
The Mong Ha social housing project has generated controversy when the government decided to terminate the original contract it had granted to Hobbs Construction Company Limited in 2011 for MOP685 million, Business Daily reported.
Expected to be completed in 2014, the project was, however, halted for some four years due to a legal dispute between the government and the original contractor, and never completed.
The government has not disclosed the compensation amount paid to Hobbs Construction for terminating the contract.