-city still in the dark
Financed by a Qatari group, Georgetown is to have a Hilton hotel and a DoubleTree Suites on a swathe of land along Carifesta Avenue but the city council yesterday remained in the dark on the plans.
The sod for the Hilton-branded venture that will yield 411 rooms was turned in February this year but there has been a tussle between the government and the city over who has control of the land in question.
Yesterday, that did not seem to be an impediment as Hilton in a press release heralded the signing of the dual brand Hilton George-town and DoubleTree Suites by Hilton George-town, as the company’s first hotels in Guyana.