From home-seekers exploring construction financing options to commercial banks, building contractors and hardware merchants offering their various sector-related services, Guyana’s Second Annual International Building Expo attracted an estimated thousands of visitors and scores of service providers over the July 29-31, 2011 weekend.
The event, for the most part, was designed to place on display the public/private sector partnership that underpins the Government of Guyana’s accelerated housing drive under which, according to official statistics, almost 90,000 house lots have been distributed over the past seven years.
At Providence, the Ministry of Housing’s One Stop Shop distributed a further 250 house lots at Herstelling over the weekend, with lots being sold at
