The National Trust of Guyana (NTG) has started preliminary work to hire a conservation consultant to develop a Preservation Plan for the City Hall building.
During a lecture at Umana Yana on Thursday, Chairman of the NTG Lennox Hernandez said that this process would be time consuming because it was not just a repair job that would require a few contractors since the skill level of the workmanship would need to be of the upmost importance.
Hernandez stated that there was no time frame set out to find either a local or international consultant even though the City Hall building is in desperate need of attention. He said that with the assistance of the World Monument Fund (WMF), the NTG and City Hall have written a joint proposal to the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation requesting financial assistance to commence the restoration project.
According to Hernandez, the WMF would help to facilitate lectures and meetings to bring awareness to the cause and it will then be the responsibility of the Culture Ministry and the NTG to utilise those opportunities to seek additional sources of financing.
Despite the urgency of the project, there have been no set deadlines so far as to when restoration will most likely commence,
