The exercise was spearheaded by Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo and held at the Windsor Forest Community Centre Ground. Each private sugar worker received $150,000.
The VP told the sugar workers the government is going to target the Wales area for the gas to energy project, is in the process of finalising the project’s route and plans to award a contract by the end of the year to build a power plant at Wales and a Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) facility.
According to Jagdeo the government is hoping within two and a half years to stop importing all the fuel to generate electricity, and use local gas to generate power. “That facility that we’re building there will supply twice as much, two times the power that GPL supplies to the whole country.”
Those present at the event were also urged to take advantage of the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) programmes to develop their academic capacity.
