-urges business community to invest

OPPOSITION Member of Parliament, Jermaine Figueira, welcomed the current expansion and development taking place in Region 10 and is calling on the business community to come on board and invest in the region.

Figueira made these remarks during his contribution to last week’s budget debate, during which he added that he hopes that the region will be a destination for commerce, trade and tourism, among other things.

He noted that citizens of Region 10 welcome the expansion with the new Wismar-Mackenzie Bridge and the building of the Linden to Lethem Highway which he added is equally important to the people of the region for the enormous potential that it can harness for growth and development.

With this expansion, Figueira said that the people of the region must benefit from owning lands along the corridor for the establishment of businesses as the expansion continues.

“Region 10 is best suited to become a commercial and heavy cargo transhipment hub. Mr Speaker we will no longer accept just being a gateway to the interior and to Brazil where people and businesses pass through to other destinations,” he said.

It was then that he added that they want the region to be a destination for trade, tourism and entertainment as no other region in the country is more connected to Guyana than Region 10.

The Opposition Member of Parliament said that Budget 2024 could help the region to be the transshipment commercial hub among other things.

He called for the establishment of an industrial duty-free zone, container terminals, warehouses and hotels, among other things.

He added, “It is in this regard we invite the business community to come on board and invest in our town and region… Mr Speaker Region 10 needs deliberate investment.”