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Granger calls for Mabaruma to be a Municipality

Jan 31, 2011 News

Addressing a largely Amerindian audience at a ‘Town Hall Meeting’ at the Mabaruma Community Centre last Saturday evening, Brigadier (Rtd.) David Granger called for the community to be upgraded to Municipality status so that it could have its own Mayor and Town Council to administer it more efficiently.
Granger, one of the five PNCR nominees now engaged in a countrywide series of meetings, said that he was appalled at the state of the community, which is the administrative centre of the nearly 8, 000 square mile Barima-Waini Region. He questioned how the administration could ignore the collapse of the stelling and erosion of the waterfront at Kumaka, the region’s main port and business district.
He also expressed dismay at the absence of commercial banks to facilitate financial transactions; the heaps of uncollected garbage; the meagre electricity supply of only six hours a day; the poor pure water supply caused by rotting overhead tanks; the decrepit Post Office building and the potholed roadways. He believes that a Mayor and Council could address these community problems.
Addressing the economy, Granger bemoaned the unemployment of school leavers and the underdevelopment of the formerly vibrant agricultural region, which once had the capability to produce the finest avocado pears, citrus, vegetables, ground provisions, fish and crab meat in the country. He called for a new educational focus on a science-based curriculum that emphasised Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Zoology and Information Technology.
He suggested that a Barima Agricultural Institute should be established to promote the teaching of Agricultural Science. To the delight of the audience, he announced that these measures would create a new generation of farmers who could once again “make Region One the Number One Region” in agricultural diversification, agro-processing and the export of non-traditional farm products.
Responding to questions from residents, Granger urged that the electrical power supply problem could be solved by adopting wind, water and solar power generation technology in order to support a vibrant agro-processing economy.

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