UDeCOTT IS OWED $500 MILLION

UDeCOTT, the State-owned company that manages the construction of projects for Government Ministries - is owed $500 million dollars by various entities.

The revelation came during a hearing of a Joint Select Committee of Parliament on Wednesday, but UDeCOTT's chairman told the Committee's chairman that he ought not use the word delinquent to describe the State entities owing UDeCOTT.

Juhel Browne reports.