x In this issue of the Stabroek Business we complete the feature article ‘Rupununi Rising?’ an exchange with Rupununi Chamber of Commerce President Orlando Wong on some of the prospects and challenges associated with the development of the Rupununi.
Not least among Wong’s concerns is a fear that the Rupununi will continue to have to endure the customary frustration of being subjected to ‘fair promises’ from central government that bear little, if any, fruit. To him, the endless challenges associated with the complete and comforting construction of a road between Linden and Lethem is the ‘acid test’ of the sincerity of the undertakings that have been afforded by central government, over the years. Trust, these days appears to be a critical issue.
