D’Urban Park bleachers to remain

Two of the better appointed stands at D’Urban Park (Stabroek News file photo/Keno George)

The bleachers at D’Urban Park will not be dismantled as originally intended as government intends to preserve and improve the area and turn it into a facility for public events, President David Granger has said.

“The present thinking is that it will be improved and kept intact as Guyana’s major place for public events… The concept of dismantling stands is now literally off the table,” the President said on the Ministry of the Presidency’s programme, “The Public Interest,” which was aired on Friday.

“It is now unlikely that those stands would be dismantled. We have had a second look at it