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PHOTO: Bona fide white elephant

An expensive parking lot controversially built for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by the Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin now appears to be a complete waste of time. Employees working at the GRA’s Camp Street Headquarters, several blocks away, have refused to use it and since then the lot, which could accommodate around 400 cars has been unused. The sheds of several guard huts have been removed and there is no activity at all. It is unclear what will now become of this park. (Arian Brown photo taken yesterday afternoon at 3.50 pm.)

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waste of resources

Former Member

Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

PHOTO: Bona fide white elephant

An expensive parking lot controversially built for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by the Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin now appears to be a complete waste of time. Employees working at the GRA’s Camp Street Headquarters, several blocks away, have refused to use it and since then the lot, which could accommodate around 400 cars has been unused. The sheds of several guard huts have been removed and there is no activity at all. It is unclear what will now become of this park. (Arian Brown photo taken yesterday afternoon at 3.50 pm.)

Stabroek News's photo.

i'm sure 'cabinet' could come up with a nice price suh manni could add it to his bulging real estate portfolio

Former Member

Whenever you see there is something like this built but with no purpose it is pure thiefin.

More than likely money siphoned to some govt official from the contractor to build the unused goadie. What happens to it after the fact is irrelevant.

Guyana has a lot of structures built by the PPP that is left unused and eventually goes back into the soil.

ballSenior Member

them goin use the concrete space fo dry paddy come rice harvest time

Former Member

Nah eventually the govt will pay BK to park trucks there.

Former Member

Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

PHOTO: Bona fide white elephant

An expensive parking lot controversially built for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) by the Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin now appears to be a complete waste of time. Employees working at the GRA’s Camp Street Headquarters, several blocks away, have refused to use it and since then the lot, which could accommodate around 400 cars has been unused. The sheds of several guard huts have been removed and there is no activity at all. It is unclear what will now become of this park. (Arian Brown photo taken yesterday afternoon at 3.50 pm.)

Stabroek News's photo.

G$50 million was spent building this non-sense.

Former Member

This was a deal to give Bai Shit lin a tax write off.

Is sheer mafia wuk the PPP and Sattaur deh pon.

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