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Jun 04, 2015 News
Newly installed President of the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA), Ramroop Rajnauth, has identified the issue of vagrancy as something the current administration must effectively and urgently address.
This, Rajnauth said, must be achieved in a comprehensive way, rather than the previous window dressing, since vagrants are having a detrimental effect on Berbice businesses and tourism on a whole.
Rajnauth was elected as the BCCDA new President on May 6, last, along with a new Executive Committee at the Chamber’s Annual General Meeting, at the Office at 12 Chapel Street, New Amsterdam.
Rajnauth, a private business owner, was unanimously elected to replace outgoing President Mark Roopnarine. He is expected to serve until 2018.
The others elected to serve with him are Ryan Alexander- Senior Vice President; Rafeek Kassim- Junior Vice President; Gyandat Marray- Secretary; Chris Hicks- Treasury Secretary; Priscilla Lakhram- Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Wassim Ali- Public Relations Officer.
The other committee members are Tajpaul Adjodhea (a representative of Hand-in-hand); Mark Bhikhai (of Ansa McAl); Roger Greenidge (private businessman); Rajendra Sukhpaul (private businessman); Stanley McKenzie (Manager of Courts, New Amsterdam); Paula Remington (private businesswoman); Shalendra Ramessar, a Representative of the Berbice Bridge Company Inc. (BBCI) and Mark Roopnarine (of Massey Industries).
According to Rajnauth, the vagrancy situation was addressed during stakeholder’s meetings, under the previous administration. At the time Rajnauth was an Executive committee member.
The meetings, which attracted officials from the Health Ministry, the Guyana Police Force and the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs), eventually came to naught.
According to the businessman, the culture of admitting these vagrants into the National Psychiatric Hospital and then releasing them unto the streets unsupervised, continued.
Rajnauth revealed that certain members of civil society, as well as volunteers would have participated in the cleanup of certain parts of New Amsterdam.
“We welcome the cleanup of New Amsterdam,” Rajnauth said.
But he pointed out, that cleaning without maintaining the environment defeated the whole purpose, since vagrants were adding to the overall situation.
“(The vagrants) are an eyesore to the county and have to be removed from the roadway.”
He said that tourists coming to visit the ancient county get the wrong image when they see vagrants on the streets and that.
The BCCDA, generally considered to be the oldest chamber in the country, was founded in 1932.
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