– after suffering a 10% revenue loss in March, due to vagaries of COVID-19

DUE to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life as we know it, the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) which initially recorded a ten per cent loss of revenue in the month of March when the virus first hit here, is now reporting that earnings for the months of May and June are almost back to normal.

DHBC General Manager Rawlston Adams told the Guyana Chronicle recently that the coronavirus has not affected the company’s operations that badly, even though it has had to work with a reduced workforce.

“Due to COVID-19 and the regulations implemented by the Task Force, we have to work with a reduced amount of staff, so that has affected the rate of how we are able to operate, but we still have a compliment of staff who is working,” Adams said. “We are a self-generating agency, so we haven’t been affected by not having a budget; we still continue with all our staff and so on. We haven’t laid off anybody; we are still able to pay our salaries, and we are still in a position to continue,” he added.
He went on to explain that in the event that there is any critical work to be done, management will ask more staff to report for duty.
“If we have critical work… I think Wednesday we had to bring out the entire team, and that was because we had some average work to be done,” he said. “So, once we have critical work to be done, we would bring out back everybody.”
Adams said the DHBC has been preparing for its capital works, and has been engaging the national procurement administration to go to tender for some of the works to be done on its pontoons, buoys and anchor change.