Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says the government intends to review the lease arrangement under which the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, NaRRA, has secured operational space at the Digicel building in downtown Kingston.
The prime minister was speaking at an OPM retreat now underway at the Terra Nova hotel in St Andrew.
The prime minister’s statement follows criticism about the annual cost to lease the office space at the Digicel building.
The annual rent is roughly $115 million a year. NaRRA announced the five-year lease on Monday, ahead of its November 1 start of operations.
The authority, headed by Major General Antony Anderson, cited the building’s resilience features and a National Land Agency valuation among the reasons for the selection.
The opposition has pushed back saying the expenditure is hard to justify.
Prime Minister Holness says the reduced space from which NaRRA will now have to occupy, under the revised lease could affect the rollout of operations.
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness.
