Georgetown : Persons with disabilities and the elderly are to be guaranteed some access to public facilities.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon indicated that persons who are physically challenged can be assured that infrastructure will be put in place for their convenience.
“In the budget, the Minister (of Finance) has actually allocated significant funds for these stellings and wharfs and also focus has been placed on facilities for those persons who require help, the elderly, ramps for those persons who are disabled. So apart from spending money on public infrastructure, this is spending money with a human face, it focuses on the hundreds of human beings that have to utilise these facilities.”
The wharfs and stellings countrywide have been neglected, according to Minister Harmon. “We have to clean up the broken-down infrastructure which we took over, which we inherited from the PPP after 23 years -a lot of our stellings and wharfs where people have to travel. I myself have campaigned against the broken wharfs between Vreed-en-Hoop and Georgetown, the speed boat ramps there; I have campaigned about the one at Parika where hundreds of people have to travel every day.”
With a view to improving stellings and wharfs, the government has started preparations to access the United Kingdom–Caribbean Infrastructure Fund (CIF), to upgrade and reconstruct several facilities in Georgetown, Parika, Port Kaituma, Kumaka and Bartica, among other areas.
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