The City Council need to  put out a bid so developers can submit a plan. 

The Mayor did not see the NEED when the PPP was in Govt, I wonder why?????????

Start wondering why the PPP loose.

Sorry if the question is way beyond your capacity.

Good morning Nehru.

Are you aware that the people of Guyana voted the PPP out of office?

Can you answer the SIMPLE question??  Or you rather keep some things under the Rug???

Sir Nehru, seven months before the May 11 elections, that is, while the PPP was in government, Mayor Hamilton Green tried to do something about the Stabroek Market wharf, but the powerful PPP-appointed Town Clerk Carol Sooba blocked him. Look at this Kaieteur News report dated October 30, 2014:

Sooba calls off meeting to address dilapidated Stabroek Market Wharf

A meeting organized by members of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), to address issues affecting vendors occupying sections of the badly dilapidated Stabroek Market  Wharf, was yesterday called off by Town Clerk (Ag), Carol Sooba.

MORE:

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....abroek-market-wharf/

Mr Journalist, You gat reading and understanding skills right. First 7 months before May 11 AND seeing how the affected Vendors will be treated is NOT repairing the Wharf, you knew dat right. If you did, then we can continue the discussion, if not ask for more Lessons.

Okay, Sir Nehru, thank you for giving me a challenge. I love fact-checking. Now, I have discovered on this Columbus Day that one month before that Kaieteur News report was published, the same newspaper reported that Carol Sooba, Hamilton Green and the PPP Local Government Minister were all in favour of rehabilitating the Stabroek Market wharf. Here:

Rehabilitation of the Stabroek Market wharf will take time – Minister Whittaker

While there is urgent need for rehabilitation of the Stabroek Market wharf, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Norman Whittaker, has said that a revised plan of action to refurbish the market area is in the pipeline, but will take time to materialise.
Whittaker said that this is because City Hall and the other markets are also in dire need of repairs.

MORE:

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....-minister-whittaker/

Mr Journalist, Are you aware that the GT City Council is not only responsible for the satae of Big Market BUT the Council COLLECTS every JILL from Vendors and others????

Every JILL from vendors and others will not make up the $$$MILLIONS required to rebuild that wharf. Central government and City Council have to pool resources for the task.

Moving on, I am appalled at the state of Kitty Market, my own market for 14 years when I lived and worked in Kitty. That structure needs to be pulled down and rebuilt too. I hope the authorities pay attention to it.

There will be no mall built. Who is going to put up the money to finance some thing like that. If you are willing to invest your money in this venture then I got a bridge in San Francisco to sell to you fools.

Nah, the ABC countries were instrumental in the Regime Change. GECOM has the details, why no recount.

The market was ok during the years of the PPP. Why a new one now? Ain't nobody got time for a new market. As usual, they can peddle their stuff at the side of the streets.

Hey Skelly, yuh rass fram Berbice, you don't know wha we talking bout. At the back of Stabroek Market is a walled and roofed wharf where vendors sold water coconut, oranges, bora, sumutu and tings like dat.

Da wharf rotton now and the new mall is going to be built in its place, that is, right behind Stabroek Market. Nobaddy closing down Stabroek Market.

Gilly, you rass right. I don't really cared for GT. I went there twice before coming to America. First time I went and applied for a student visa and the second time I went to uplift my visa. My first visit I stayed at a family friend's house. I sat there at the window and about seven PM, I saw a man got robbed of his felt hat. What a city!

Seriously, I don't care for crowded places. Berbice is just right.

you was and is still stupid to walk in georgetown i bet you take off your shoe and roll up your pants when u was in water street 

You king of jackasses, can yo not read and understand?

bai that shit head is affecting you again take your med

I went there twice before coming to America. First time I went and applied for a student visa and the second time I went to uplift my visa.

 

Read the bove bolded statement king of jackasses. Maybe the jackasses should request that you be replaced as their king.

It is no secret that the PPP starved the Georgetown City Council of much needed resources through their lackeys Sooba and Whittaker who controlled the funding of the city. They allowed the city to deteriorate from the Garden City to the Garbage City. Kudos to the new Government for paying attention to restoring this once beautiful city. 

Wha rass you know....Dem Black Bush people always roll up dem pants on wata street, even if dem wear lang boots.

Bai, me and you will always be friends because of your honesty. Except when you rile up me best friend Warria.

It is good that they are taking that place down. There are more cases of safety hazards in that first pic than I care to count.

Baseman agrees in principle with the initiative however, no one will invest in the current state of affairs.

wanna bet?

 

aaahhhhhh, de bitterness . . . lol

I have some very nice memories about that Stabroek Market wharf. When I started working in GT 45 years ago I used to go there mid-days for coconut water fortified with steel drops. There was an orange lady who liked me young head and she would give me a free orange now and then. Before y'all get ideas, she was old like me grandmudda.

What a freaking eyesore!! I have the burden of crossing there with speedboat on numerous occasions. Here is a place to spend on and generate a fiscal stimulus.

TRANSLATION: That wharf looks really bad. I see it from a water-taxi many times. They should build in its place something nice to generate plenty profit.

Well TK, someone should have done something about it, before now.

But GT was not their priority.  

Me like this story.  Many older ladies and men taught me many things about life, like treating others with respect and sharing.     

Any self respecting govt will rebuild that place. They would make it more humane to enter the speedboats. I always thought PPP ministers should be taking those boats to get a view of that sick eyesore and how pregnant women and old folks have to bob and weave to enter those boats...that place is so dangerous. I like passing there just to meet people. Once a banna took 20 grand G$ out of my buttoned top pocket without I ever knowing...I have to give the pick pocketer credit for his delicate skills and light hand 

The current fleet of speedboats looks safer to me than those I last used on the river in 1996. Those were open, no roof for sun or rain. The sea-spray used to assault my face.

Statistically they are safer than minibuses. Even the speedboats going to Leguan and Supernaam. Bartica too. Those can be nerve wracking...but generally safe . Lot's of fun.

It got to be you dem bais does talk about when dey seh wan man bin come to GT and when he see the street lights he asked he GT friend " ah how ayuh gat so muh moon hay and abee only have one moon weh me ah live.

Look at that, now you supporting the Govt expending dollars on what should be a private endeavor.  You think that couple million taxpayer dollars would create a stimulus, what a joke.  The place was dutty, for sure and so was all of GT, and now that the PNC clan just found cleanliness is a good thing, let then have fun.

 

If was PPP, you would be putting out position papers of the fallacy of it all.

Yes, and thanks to economic development and the rules put in place by the PPP, some degree of human decency and safety was brought to bear.   Let's hope these current jokers don't destroy it all before 2020.

 

 

Baseman you are a piece of work.  Stabroek Market is NOT a private sector entity.   In fact it can be developed with the vendors placed there, as it is already a destination.

 

I suspect you think that the gov't shouldn't lengthen the runway because the airlines are privately owned (or owned by foreign gov'ts in the case of CAL). 

I don't know what you guys are quarreling about, but the idea is a good one regardless of who develop it. The runaway at the airport is also a start. If they can improve all that the PPP did and complete them in record time without stealing the dough, It would go along way of creating an atmosphere of trust, but they will have to get rid of that deadbeat PM and that clumsy Khemraj.