Brassington backing Marriott to come up trumps

Chief Executive Officer of NICIL Winston Brassington said he believes that over time the Marriott Hotel will come to be a significant asset to Guyana and to its accommodation industry. “In fact I think that this is already being recognized,” the embattled NICIL top executive told this newspaper earlier this week, shortly after facing a battery of vigorous questioning from media representatives following the release of the forensic report conducted by former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran on the performance of NICIL.

The wisdom of state investment in the Marriott Hotel has been at the forefront of the controversy that continues to swirl around the operations of NICIL even before the present administration took office this year. However, and despite strident criticism of the investment, Brassington insists he is convinced that the multi-million-dollar prestige hotel will “make it.”

“We had projected that in the first few months they would not have to come to us for any money… that they