The pressure is building on the government over the deep woes of the multi-billion-dollar fibre-optic cable project, inaugurated by the Jagdeo administration, after it was quietly disclosed that it had been suspended more than a year ago.
The project to lay a fibre-optic cable from Brazil to Georgetown to vastly expand internet bandwidth came back into sharp focus two Mondays ago when Stabroek News reported that government officials had gone quiet on a project which had missed many deadlines.
At a press conference last week, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon acknowledged that the project needed “remedial work” but made no mention that it had been suspended. That announcement was quietly made to the December 12th edition of the Guyana Times by the Project Manager Alexei Ramotar who had not been available to Stabroek News for several weeks to discuss the state of the project.
In a letter in the Sunday Stabroek yesterday, city businessman and former Head of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
