MICHAEL Thompson, a member of the City Council of Toronto, Canada, and an associate of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ (FCM) Board of Directors will be visiting projects that the FCM is implementing with support from Caribbean Local Economic Development (CARILED), including one to benefit the farmers of Mara in Region Six.

Thompson paid a courtesy call yesterday on Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker. He also met with officials from the Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Region Six.
During the engagement with the Minister and RDC, Thompson was given the highlight of the Region’s history and growth, as well as some of the local government endeavours that the Guyana Government is seeking to implement for the benefit of its people.
Thompson is expected to be the key speaker at a local government seminar today, which will focus on the role of council members in local economic development, and on July 25 visit and commission the Tapakuma Women’s Agriculture Diversification Project in Region Two.
He will also visit the Diamond Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) to look at some of the benefits of the Community Roads Improvement Programme (CRIP.) Under the institutional development and capacity-building aspect of the CRIP, which was supported by the FCM, the Diamond NDC benefited from the construction of a new NDC office and also from capacity training and the purchase of a new computer system.

(GINA)