Official Statement

Government of Guyana has failed to pay EUR 45.53 million in construction invoices

Vienna, 7 August 2026 – 14:07

EN

The Government of Guyana, led by the Minister of Health, has failed to pay construction invoices totalling EUR 45.53 million that have been due since October 2025.

Even after ten months and endless negotiations, the Government of Guyana has still not paid the outstanding construction invoices.

This is surprising, given that the engineering firm commissioned by the government had only recently certified EUR 39 million of these as valid.

Due to these failings, work on both hospitals has been scaled back. Legal action is underway.

“They have underlying problems throughout the Ministry of Health.”
— Kenneth Knauer, 53, on site in Guyana

Further information on the current status will follow.

DE

Guyanas Regierung angeführt durch den Gesundheitsminister zahlt seit Oktober 2025 fällige Baurechnungen zu EUR 45,53 Mio. nicht.

Auch nach zehn Monaten und unendlichen Verhandlungen zahlt die Regierung Guyanas die ausstehenden Bau-Rechnungen nicht.

Verwunderlich: Denn die von der Regierung beauftragte Ingenieurgesellschaft hatte gerade kürzlich EUR 39 Mio. davon als berechtigt bescheinigt.

Wegen dieser Verfehlungen wurden die Arbeiten an beiden Hospitals heruntergefahren. Klage ist unterwegs.

“They have underlying problems throughout the Ministry of Health.”
—  Kenneth Knauers (53) vor Ort in Guyana

Weitere Informationen folgen zum Sachstand.

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1. COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA AND THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE

a) When visiting the website: Every time a customer (or other visitor) accesses our website, the internet browser used on your device (computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) automatically sends information to the server of our website , This information is temporarily stored in a so-called logfile (log file) on the server side (web hosting provider).

The following data will be collected without your intervention and stored until automated deletion:

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Our legitimate interest in accordance. Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO for the collection of data is based on the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a smooth connection setup and comfortable use of the website,
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In no case we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you.

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The mentioned data will be processed to process the contractual relationship. The processing of data is based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. The retention period is limited to the purpose of the contract and, if available, statutory and contractual retention requirements.

2. TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

A transfer of your data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below does not take place. We only pass on your data to third parties if:

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In these cases, however, the amount of data transmitted is limited to the minimum required. Our privacy policy is consistent with applicable data protection laws and the data is processed only in the European Union. A transfer to third countries does not take place and is not intended.

3. AFFECTED RIGHTS

On request, we will be pleased to inform you whether and which clearly personal data about you are stored (Article 15 GDPR), in particular the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been disclosed or will , the planned storage period, the right of rectification, deletion, limitation of processing or opposition, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of their data, if they were not collected from us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to correct any incorrectly collected personal data or to complete incomplete data collected (Art. 16 GDPR). Furthermore, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your data, provided that the legal conditions for doing so are met (Art. 18 GDPR). You have the right to receive the personal data relating to you in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another person responsible (Art. 20 GDPR). In addition, you are entitled to the so-called “right to be forgotten”. H. You can request the deletion of your personal data from us, provided that the legal prerequisites exist (Art. 17 GDPR). Regardless of this, your personal data will be automatically deleted by us if the purpose of the data collection has been omitted or the data processing has been unlawful.

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You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time, provided that a right of objection is provided for by law. In the case of an effective revocation, your personal data will also be automatically deleted by us (Article 21 GDPR). If you would like to exercise your right of revocation or objection, it is sufficient to send an e-mail to the e-mail address listed at the end of this privacy policy. In case of violations of the data protection regulations you have acc. Art. 77 DSGVO the possibility to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

4. DURATION OF DATA STORAGE

The data collected will be stored by us as long as necessary for the performance of the contracts we have entered into, or you have not exercised your right to cancellation or your right to transfer data to another company.

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Google Maps

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On our website, you may have the option of submitting the respective page to selected social media platforms in order to recommend them within your individual group of friends (“friends”, social graph). After using the respective social icons (click on the Facebook icon, for example), you will be redirected to the respective platform in a new window, which may ask you to log in to your profile first. Thereupon, or during this or even before, only the page contents of the page to be recommended are analyzed exclusively by the platform operator and processed differently depending on the platform (title of the page, picture motif as icon, continuous text). We point out in the context that we have no influence on the data collection of the respective platform, which applies to the registered as well as not registered condition in the respective social media offer. When using the social media recommendations (buttons), you automatically and knowingly agree that the respective social media offers can collect and store data about your person and your usage behavior. We as the provider of the website offered here have no influence on this and therefore we hereby release ourselves from any liability with regard to the data collection and storage of third parties.

Web Statistics Collection (Web Statistics Tool)

Our website use Google Analytics, a service by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 United States. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.

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When you access our website, a connection is established with CookieFirst’s server to give us the possibility to obtain valid consent from you to the use of certain cookies. CookieFirst then stores a cookie in your browser in order to be able to activate only those cookies to which you have consented and to properly document this. The data processed is stored until the predefined storage period expires or you request to delete the data. Certain mandatory legal storage periods may apply notwithstanding the aforementioned.

CookieFirst is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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We have concluded a data processing agreement with CookieFirst. This is a contract required by data protection law, which ensures that data of our website visitors is only processed in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

Server log files

Our website and CookieFirst automatically collect and store information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The following data is collected:

  • Your consent status or the withdrawal of consent
  • Your anonymised IP address
  • Information about your Browser
  • Information about your Device
  • The date and time you have visited our website
  • The webpage url where you saved or updated your consent preferences
  • The approximate location of the user that saved their consent preference
  • A universally unique identifier (UUID) of the website visitor that clicked the cookie banner

6. DATA SECURITY

We take all necessary technical and organizational security measures to store your personal data so that it is not accessible to third parties or the public. If you would like to contact us by e-mail, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the transmitted information can not be completely guaranteed with this communication method. We therefore recommend that you send us confidential information only by telephone or by post. For e-mail communication, we recommend the best possible encryption of your outbox via SSL technology. For more information, please contact your e-mail service provider.

7. UP-TO-DATENESS AND CHANGE OF THIS DATA PROTECTION EXPLANATION

This privacy policy is currently valid.

Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be viewed and printed on our website at any time using the link below.

8. NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS OF THE CONTROLLER

We are pleased to help all concerned in connection with the handling of personal data and exercising their rights.  For assistance please contact wwh@wwh.com. We are committed to dealing with all questions promptly.

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VAMED ENGINEERING GmbH

Headquarters Vienna
Brehmstraße 12,
1110 Vienna – Austria

Managing Director:
Ulrich Marseille

Commercial Register: Vienna
Company Register Number: 162841y
UID: ATU70674549

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Headquarters North
Sportallee 1,
22335 Hamburg – Germany

Managing Director:
Estella-Maria Marseille

Commercial Register: Local Court of Hamburg
Company registration number: HRB 182291
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