MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKD

ACTING MINISTER: Hon. Ruth Coker-Collins

The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) was created by an Act of the National Legislature in 1928. It is headed by a Minister assisted by 
three deputy ministers. In 2008 by an Act of Legislature, the Ministry of Rural Development was dissolved and its functions merged 
into the Ministry of Public Works. The Ministry performs the following responsibilities: drafting and designing constructions, planning 
and constructing public infrastructures, supervising construction contracts implementation, maintaining roads, bridges and public 
buildings, among others.