-processing hub for Bonasika
An entrepreneurship programme targeting especially youth and women will be launched in the small Essequibo farming village of Bonasika and President Irfaan Ali also announced that the planned CARICOM ferry will operate from Parika.
To complement a planned agro-processing plant in Bonasika and give farmers in Region Three access to regional markets for their produce, Ali said that the expected regional ferry service plying the Trinidad, Guyana and Barbados routes will dock and operate from the Parika Stelling.
“We want to get the bananas into the regional market and the good thing about here is that we could export directly to CARICOM from here. You don’t need to transport to Georgetown and all these places. That is why we are pushing so hard to get the regional ferry because the regional ferry will operate out of Parika so that we can have all of these production from these islands integrated into the regional market,” the President told residents of Bonasika, Region Three during a visit there yesterday.