The anxiously awaited report from the National Infrastructure Development Company (Nidco) on its use of the recommendations of the Highway Review Committee may not be submitted until the end of the week.
Nidco’s chairman Dr Carson Charles said yesterday the State agency was still tweaking the report which was supposed to be handed to the Joint Consultative Council (JCC) by late yesterday.
"I don't see that it would be beyond this week," Charles said, adding the phrasing of the document was still being worked on.
The report, which was requested by the JCC, is supposed to give an account for Nidco's consideration and use of the document produced by the committee last year on government's $7 billion Solomon Hochoy Highway extension into Point Fortin.
It was sparked by protest over the Debe to Mon Desir leg of the highway. It was commissioned in 2012 by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to end the hunger strike by Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) leader, Dr Wayne Kublalsingh.
The JCC had formed part of the multi-stakeholder committee, which was led by Dr James Armstrong and ended Kublalsingh’s 21-day first hunger strike in December 2012.
Last week the JCC's demanded to know how the committee’s report had been handled by Nidco. Yesterday marked 42 days Kublalsingh had gone without food and water.
The activist, who was hospitalised after collapsing two weeks ago, has been unable to return to his camp set by the HRM opposite the Office of the Prime Minister, St Clair.
President of the JCC, Afra Raymond, up to yesterday was still expecting the document which was initially set for submission last Friday.