GRA to pay Bai Shan Lin ‘fee’ for Lamaha parking lot

Bai Shan Lin equipment on the Lamaha embankment site of the parking lot on Saturday

Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur said Chinese forest company Bai Shan Lin approached the agency with a view to demonstrating good corporate social responsibility and offered to build the car park now under construction on the Lamaha Railway Embankment.

Speaking with Stabroek News yesterday, Sattaur said that the GRA and the company are joint venturing in the construction of the parking facility and there was no tendering or contract awarded for the works.

“We have had a joint venture arrangement. They [Bai Shan Lin] have the equipment, they do the work and they will