Ministry of Local Govern-ment evaluators including engineers are currently tweaking the project proposal for Guyana’s first solid waste recycling plant and should take the new document to Cabinet for its approval by month end.
Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker told Stabroek News that there is team which is working on “getting the proposal to the specifications that Cabinet asked for to meet Guyana’s waste recycling needs.” He explained that the process was two tiered with the first being the completion of the project proposal to be resubmitted and approv-ed by Cabinet and the last the ministry contacting the six firms, which had submitted their proposals, to inform them of the changes needed.
Cabinet Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon had said earlier last month that a proposal made by the Ministry of Local Govern-ment representative had been reviewed and needed to be reworked to meet specified requirements of government.
“The recycling project, when it was presented to Cabinet… drew a strong request for the process to be redone,
