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Boat owners repairing Meadow Bank wharf
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After years, rehabilitation works to improve the Meadow Bank wharf, East Bank Demerara are being executed by boat owners.
Repairs to the wharf, which had loose slippery timber planking, began about five weeks ago. Works were initiated by two boat owners, Leonard Jetoo and Nandalall Gopaul, after a section of the wharf collapsed last May.
Fisherfolk protested the deplorable condition of the wharf earlier this year and had asked Government to provide financial assistance. The rehabilitation project is still awaiting financial assistance
Meadow Bank wharf rehabilitated jetty
from Government.
According to Gopaul, in the initial stage of the project Jetoo purchased materials to replace the timber planks and paid for labour. He noted that with agreement of boat owners, a fee to moor their vessels is paid to the office at the Georgetown Fishermen’s Co-operative Society.
He explained that fee would be used to reimburse himself and Jetoo for repairs executed earlier and finance additional works such as shedding the jetty and dredging the area around the wharf.
Making it abundantly clear that the Society has nothing to do with the repairs, Gopaul said that this project is spearheaded and executed by boat owners.
According to a boat owner, previous attempts to repair the wharf failed owing to financial discrepancy. The man explained that boat owners used to pay the Society $1,500 to moor their vessels per trip and that money was used to fund the repairs.
But, only a few planks were changed. A large sum was believed put aside to fence the compound. However, to date the compound has not been fenced and the Society has become somewhat inactive.
The boat owner stressed that a donation of about $5M from Government would help to improve the wharf.
Meanwhile, the facility’s ice plant that was inoperable for some time is back in operation. Operations Manager of the Ice Plant, Clarence Foster, disclosed that he has leased the facility from the Society. Currently, the plant is supplying ice to the fishermen.
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