Contractors and hardware store proprietors along with the commercial banking sector have been singled out by Housing and Water Minister Irfaan Ali as the private sector entities that provide significant material and technical support for the country’s housing drive.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the International Building Expo last Friday, Ali said that they have an alliance with the Ministry of Housing and the Government of Guyana “to ensure that the well-meaning policies of the government and [its] strong housing policies… are implemented in an effective manner, and… that the right resources are available to bring meat to this product of housing.”
Asserting that there was once a time when Guyana was unable to produce sufficient contractors “to do our own work at home”, Ali told public and private sector officials and other visitors to the opening of the event that the country could now celebrate “the investments that