Ministerial committee formed on waterway transport needs – Edghill

Officials at a high-level meeting in Trinidad on the CARICOM ferry service

-CARICOM ferry project still to set sail

Guyana requires a holistic plan on the waterway transportation needs for this country and President Irfaan Ali has tasked five of his ministers along with technical teams to conduct an analysis so that his government can aptly plan for the future, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says.

This initiative, according to Edghill, is separate from  the CARICOM-planned ferry service and a private sector project under the Connect Caribe consortium. “A group has been established… to be able to get a full understanding of what our waterway transport needs would be for the future. Whether it would be for movement of people, tourism, export/import activities, and other uses such as supplying building materials throughout the country,” Edghill told  Stabroek News last week.