Remigrant Peter Baptiste was ready to give up on his dream of developing a logging business, but President Irfaan Ali renewed his hope by assuring him that he will obtain a lease for a piece of land he had been waiting on for years.
According to a release from the Office of the President, Baptiste returned home sometime in 2017 with high hopes and dreams of investing in a log exporting and value-added business in Linden.
Speaking to the President at a presidential outreach in Linden on Thursday, the 45-year-old said that when he re-migrated to Guyana some four years ago, he sold all his assets from his minibus service in order to purchase five logging trucks valued at approximately $60M.