Mahaica River tour group gifted with boat, outboard engine

From left: Raywantie Ram (tour guide), Ramesh Shibsahai (boatman), Annette Arjoon-Martins (Project Manager of the Caribbean Aqua Terrestrial Solutions) and Indranauth Haralsingh (Executive Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority).

Caribbean Aqua Terrestrial Solutions (CATS), supported by funding from the German government, handed over an aluminium boat and 50 HP four-stroke Yamaha outboard engine to the Mahaica River Birding Tour Group yesterday. Dr Horst Vogel, the Head of CATS, Annette Arjoon-Martins the Project Manager and Indranauth Haralsingh, Executive Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, were all present at the ceremony.

The Mahaica group, which has been operating for a year now, is just one byproduct of training and capacity building workshops held with the aim of