India’s government will be taking over responsibility for the Indian immigration monument project that was initiated at Palmyra, in Berbice.
The Department of Culture, Youth and Sport has already handed over documents to India’s High Commissioner to Guyana Venkatachalam Mahalingam and a technical engineering team and is awaiting word on whether the project would continue at the current site or at another location at Highbury, also in Berbice
“The big problem is who started the project did so without the necessary geo-technical evaluation of the location. We inherited everything like that and then it collapsed. As a result, on that we called on [Ministry of] Infrastructure to do the geo-technical study and a report. They did that and submitted a report and by then we met with the Indian High Commissioner, who had asked to meet with us. The report was given to him and he has it with his engineers. He has it and he will decide where they take it, but more than likely it will continue to be built right there,” Minister of Social Cohesion George Norton told Sunday Stabroek last Wednesday.
