President Irfaan Ali yesterday implored Guyanese to dare to dream and act on futuristic developments as he took part in the sod turning for the US$50 million, 150-room, AC Marriott Hotel at Ogle, an area of former sugar estate lands on the East Coast of Demerara that he says will be soon unrecognisable.
“Where we are sitting here today used to be old cane lands. Everything you see on the left, and look at it carefully because in five to ten years, it will not be there. This corridor is going to become the symbol of transformation in this country,” Ali said as he pointed to the large swathe of former sugar cane lands, now taken over by trees and grass.