Government is currently making attempts to resuscitate the Morawhanna fish port complex in Region One—a project which never fulfilled its intended purpose since coming on stream in the 1980s.
A request for proposal was recently made public in the state-owned Guyana Chronicle for persons who have interest in the complex to submit such proposals to the government’s holding company, the National Commercial and Industrial Investments Limited (NICIL).
Region One Chairman Fermin Singh told Stabroek News recently that the project, which was launched some time in the mid-1980s, has been at a standstill since it was unveiled. He explained that the intention was to have the fishermen in