Georgetown : President Donald Ramotar spent the weekend with Amerindians in the North Rupununi, Region Nine, listening to their concerns .
Community meetings were held in Annai, Karasabai and Potarinau with a visiting team that included Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs Nigel Dharamlall and an entourage of regional officials.
During the engagements, sewing machines and chainsaws were handed over to residents of the three communities and an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) dedicated to the malaria fight.
Bertie Xavier, Senior Councillor of Wowetta received two cheques valued at 1.5M each for construction of a village office, and for an ecotourism project.
Among the first beneficiaries are Kwaimatta (cassava production,) Rupertee, (cassava processing facility), Aranaputa (cash crop farm), Annai Central (aquaculture farm) Apoteri (skill centre) and Wowetta (eco-tourism project).
A total of 166 CDPs designed and approved at the village level are slated to be implemented with the $1.2B GRIF fund that the Guyana Government and its implementing partner the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed-off in August.
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