Part One
The Rupununi in Region Nine ‘experiences’ two cut and dried weather seasons, a wet season from April to August and a dry one from September to March. There is no time when Lethem, particularly, does not wish that the dry season gets the lion’s share of the wet weather cycle, to the extent that it customarily manifests itself ‘spells’ what, sometimes, is a painful gouge in business activity.
Orland Wong, President of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the Stabroek Business during a ‘sit down’ interview at the Movietowne Mall last Monday that, setting aside the vagaries of the weather, ‘doing business’ in the Rupununi faces two major challenges. The first, he said, is a condition of painfully limited access to state contracts; the second is access to land; both constraints are inhibiting in their painfully obvious ways.