The National Trust of Guyana manages over 400 gazetted and ungazetted historic sites countrywide and while it is operating with a very small budget and limited staff, Chief Executive Officer Nirvana Persaud believes that support from the public, Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) and Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDCs) could help it to fulfill its mandate.
“We have a large maintenance list that we can hardly keep up with and its growing… it [maintenance] will remain a challenge because we have a provisional list but we also have a monument register of documented things of interest and that includes from commemorative monuments to statues to sites to tombs … that ranges over 400 throughout the country. That gives you an idea of our scope of work and the challenges we have because our staff… here is very small,” Persaud told Sunday Stabroek during a recent interview.
Persaud said that the Trust has a total of 16 staff members, eight of whom are permanent.
