Overview

Chinese Government provides BBD$19 million grant for Garfield Sobers Gymnasium Refurbishment Project

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$10,361,855

Commitment Year•2016Country of Activity•BarbadosDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•BarbadosSector•Industry, Mining, ConstructionFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Mar 1, 2016

Start (actual): Mar 21, 2016

End (actual): Aug 28, 2017

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This project involved the refurbishment of Garfield Sobers Gymnasium in Bridgetown. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/95457851

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

China Ministry of Commerce

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Barbados

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Barbados Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth

State-owned companies

Shanxi Construction Engineering (Group) Corporation

Loan desecription

Chinese Government provides BBD$19 million grant for Garfield Sobers Gymnasium Refurbishment Project

Narrative

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Project narrative

On March 1, 2016, China signed a BBD$19 million grant contract with Barbados to help refurbish the Garfield Sobers Gymnasium (加菲尔德∙索伯斯体育馆) in Bridgetown. The project included solar power installation and general maintenance. Shanxi Construction Engineering Group implemented the project and was contracted on March 1, 2016. The design contract was signed on May 19, 2015 by the design inspection team and the Minister of Culture, Sports, and Youth. The groundbreaking ceremony occurred on March 21, 2016, and construction work primarily occurred from April 2016 to July 2017, with a fire on June 1, 2017, setting the schedule back. The completion and handover ceremony took place on August 28, 2017. The Garfield Sobers Gymnasium was initially built in 1992 using Chinese funds and refurbished in 2005, again with Chinese financial assistance.

Staff comments

Barbados is not ODA-eligible from 2011 onwards. The construction dates April 2016 to July 2017 were found in a photo in the MOFCOM source "我援巴巴多斯加菲尔德·索伯斯体育馆维修改造项目举行竣工移交仪式."