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Iinvestigate the Marriott Hotel project

Jun 19, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Why is the Government pushing so hard for the Marriott Hotel project? Guyana is a small country with hardly many foreign visitors and is not deemed to be a tourist attraction.
Many hotels were built for the Cricket World Cup and most of these hotels are facing bankruptcy and closure due to lack of return on investments and empty rooms.
This small country is already saturated with many high class hotels but they cannot fill their rooms, how can the Marriott Hotel be different?
The Government or persons close to the Government seem to have an interest in the Marriott Hotel project and this project need to be investigated by the media and patriotic Guyanese.
Something is fishy here, similar to the Amaila Hydro Project and the media should launch an investigation immediately into this Marriott Hotel project just as they did in the Amaila road and hydro project.
According to press reports a Grenadian construction company is to build the new Marriott Hotel but who are the owners and financiers of the hotel?
Who purchased the land in Kingston where the Marriott hotel is to be built and for what sum? Why the secrecy in this deal when that land belongs to the people of Guyana?
Why is this government interested in the hotel business?
The media should ask, who are the investors in this Marriott project and the source of their funding.
I am sure if the media take this Marriott Hotel project investigation seriously, a lot of unsavory things will be exposed just as the road to the Amaila Falls hydro project.
If the government is concerned with expanding tourism, why not allocate land in Berbice, Essequibo or Lethem to build the Marriott so that these areas can develop.
Besides these areas are the real tourist attractions and not Georgetown.
Why is the opposition parties and civil society silent on this issue?
Come on media men and women let’s see your investigative journalism skills now and expose the hidden agenda on this Marriott Hotel project.
Balwant Persaud

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