Rejuvenation works at the T&HD on Water Street yesterday left decades-old records strewn carelessly around the area.
At around 11:00 a.m., the Sunday Stabroek visited the Water Street location of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) of the Ministry of Public Works. Debris and destroyed paper records and ledgers were scattered all over the compound, blowing into the street, and clustered alongside broken glass and shattered shelves. Men were hard at work with an excavator piling all the debris together and loading it onto a truck.
SN witnessed “Combined requisition and issue vouchers” for the MV Kanuku, MV Malali, MV Makouria, MV Torani, MV Acquero, MV Bouyant, MV Maraudi, MV Barima, MV Maripa, MV Pomeroon, MV Canje Pheasant, MV Lady Northcote from back in 1980, 1984. Additionally, local historian Andrew Campbell found excursion arrangements for the Georgetown to Rosignol and return the same day train from 1968.
It is unclear whether these records have been digitized.
