SSB Spending Millions to Retrofit McKoy Building

The press told the Prime Minister about the other public embarrassment for the Social Security Board in which their eight-million-dollar David L McKoy building in Belmopan has to be retrofitted to bring some structural integrity to it.

It was opened last year, but had major issues. Those missteps are now forcing the SSB and this new government administration to spend an additional 3 million dollars to make necessary repairs.

That's almost half of the full price of the building, and here's what the Prime Minister had to say about it when the media asked about it:

Hon. John Briceno - Prime Minister
"Well, yes, we have been, again, briefed about it. And it was a bad design. It was badly - the architect supposedly seems to have made a number of - or overlooked a number of things that should have been in the design. We could have made it political, but we did not. We decided that now we have a problem. We have the people's money. We just can't walk away from it. And Social Security is going to spend the extra money to be able to repair it because we have to fix it."

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