RK’s Eco-Starmotos, a new line of low cost, environmentally-friendly vehicles, was launched on Wednesday and lauded for combined efforts of Chinese production and ingenuity and Guyanese entrepreneurship.
The line is the initiative of businessman Roshan Khan, who said that the vehicles are imported in parts are and are assembled in Guyana. Khan, CEO and Founder of RK’s Guyana Security Services, boasted that it represents the first time that vehicles have been assembled here.
According to the Government Information Agency (GINA), President Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at the launch at the National Cultural Centre tarmac, said the vehicles are consistent with Guyana’s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. He added that although Guyana is not a major producer of carbon, “if we could demonstrate to the developed world that we can achieve prosperity and that we can meet the needs of our people through an alternative, non-polluting pathway, it could become a useful lesson for them to emulate.”
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has been lobbying for years for government to adopt such a venture and he said that the use of such types of vehicles has brought development to Asian countries. “You want to have the kind of equipment and vehicles that would allow people to advance stage by stage,” he is quoted as saying by GINA. Hinds also posited that the prospects of Guyanese welcoming this type of vehicle are good.
Additionally, China’s Ambassador to Guyana Yu Wenzhe said the venture is yet another example of the cooperation between Guyana and China. He also expressed hopes that the bilateral ties will continue to be strengthened.
