More than a year after the controversy over the construction of the D’Urban Park Development Project erupted, the facilities are still being grossly underutilized and the stands are mainly used by vagrants for shelter.
The lack of use has been heightened by the announcement last week by the government that the 51st independence anniversary flag-raising will be held at Stabroek Square at a significant cost and not at D’Urban Park as the expectation had been.
Stabroek News visited the D’Urban Park facility on the afternoon of April 25. It was empty save for scattered vagrants sleeping on several stands. While the grass had been cut and the area appeared to have been recently attended to, there was hardly anyone around.
