Georgetown : The two US$14M, Roll on/Roll off ferries are yet to be used more than six months after its arrival in Guyana and according to Robeson Benn commuters plying the Parika/Supenaam route will have to wait until next month end or early August before these vessels can be used.
The ferries, Sabanto and Kanawan, have Amerindian names. Kanawan means ‘big canoe’ and Sabanto means ‘beautiful one’.
The Public Works Minister was at the time responding to his shadow colleague in the House Joe Harmon, who sought clarification on why the ferries have not been put to use as yet.
Benn told the House that the Ministry has been working feverishly to ensure that the roll on/roll off facilities meaning the trouble prone stellings for which more than half a billion dollars have already been spent.
Benn blamed the delay in launching the roll on roll off ferry service to design changes and a difficulty in sourcing certain supplies required for the project.
He drew specific reference to the need for 75 feet Green heart piles as a result of modifications to the design and said that the commodity has been difficult to source.
The Minister did seek to assure the House that by the end of July the service should be fully operational but left room for error in the deadline and said that the outside date for the launch of the service would be the first week in August.
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