Repairs to Kwakwani barge for completion shortly

Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson is appealing to loggers who use the larger of the two Kwakwani barges to bear with his ministry as the ministry is working to get the vessel up and running again soon.

“It will be up very shortly. It has a few holes and leaks and so [but] they will have it soon,” Patterson told Stabroek News yesterday when asked about the downed vessel.

His comments came in the wake of logger Kim Kissoon’s complaints that since the vessel