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Mapp Halts Stadium Reconstruction, De Jongh Approved Contractor Without Concept Or Design

Governor Kenneth Mapp, at a press conference held Thursday at Government House on St. Croix, revealed he has halted the long-awaited and recently started reconstruction of the Paul E. Joseph Stadium in Frederiksted. The governor said the contract, awarded to St. Croix-based GEC, LLC, was hastily put together, and that it was approved and signed by former Governor John P. de Jongh, even while the contractor did not have a single design to show. Paul E. Joseph Stadium construction, now halted by Governor Kenneth Mapp "The Paul E. Joseph project in Frederiksted, which is a $20 million project, I have directed for that project to be frozen," the governor said. "I visited the project on Sunday. As many of you know, that project was put together in haste." According to the governor, if the reconstruction of the stadium continues under the current bindings of the contract, the territory's tax-paying residents would lose $10 million. "What is so troubling about that project is that the g...