Architect is taking legal action over cancelled straw market

Read storyThe architect who designed the cancelled straw market facility has joined the project's contractor in complaining that government has not paid for work that was done.

Michael Foster said he has taken legal action to collect the money he is owed for designing the $23 million facility that the FNM government cancelled saying it was too expensive.

Foster also defended his design, saying it could have generated $2 million a year. He said he did not see how a $10 million dollar structure could do the job.

Ashley Glinton of Woslee Dominion Construction recently expressed concern that the government has not met its obligation to him.

Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here