The European Union (EU)-funded Comprehensive Restora-tion and Sustainable Conserva-tion Management Plan to restore the deteriorating City Hall building should be completed by year-end, according to Nirvana Persaud, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Trust, who says it ought to be implemented as soon as possible afterward.
In an interview last week with Stabroek News, Persaud criticised the municipality for failing to maintain the building, which was built in 1889.
“Though it [the building] is sound, you have rotting boards, you have windows falling off, you have gutters falling off … but that building is legally in the control of the municipality and that is their responsibility,” she said, while noting that the municipality, which uses the building on a daily basis, should be repairing and maintaining it.
Persaud explained that while City Hall is
