Belgian dredging company, Jan De Nul, yesterday invited proposals for the supply of a staggering two million metric tonnes of sand for the Vreed-en-Hoop Shore Base project even as Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill assured that there is an ample supply in this country.
“Jan De Nul Guyana Inc. invites bidders to submit proposals for the following: supply and delivery of two million (2,000,000) metric tons of sand to the Vreed-en-Hoop Shorebase at the Demerara River mouth,” the advertisement published in the Guyana Chronicle, stated.
Against the background that last month it had brought into the country a suction dredge that can pipe sand from the river bed, this newspaper asked, among other questions, if the shorebase project would be using suction dredging for its land reclamation purposes.