The new Guapo Beach Fa­cil­i­ty, a $7.2 mil­lion in­vest­ment by LNG pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny At­lantic, was of­fi­cial­ly hand­ed over on Tues­day to the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion. A re­lease from At­lantic said the fa­cil­i­ty was built thor­ough a part­ner­ship be­tween At­lantic, the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion and Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty Trinidad and To­ba­go. The fa­cil­i­ty will be owned and man­aged by the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion. Fea­ture speak­er at the han­dover event, Tourism Min­is­ter Dr Ru­pert Grif­fith said that the new beach fa­cil­i­ty pro­vid­ed lo­cals and tourists with a des­ti­na­tion for beach and so­cial ac­tiv­i­ties, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing the Point Fortin Bor­ough Day fes­tiv­i­ties.

"The project rep­re­sents a long-term in­vest­ment in the fu­ture of one of south Trinidad's most pop­u­lar sea­side beach ar­eas," Grif­fith said. Nigel Dar­low, CEO, At­lantic said that the LNG com­pa­ny em­barked on the beach fa­cil­i­ty project in or­der to make an im­por­tant con­tri­bu­tion to the fab­ric of com­mu­ni­ty life in Point Fortin. "We en­vi­sioned a space where gen­er­a­tions of Point Fortin chil­dren could play, and where fam­i­ly life and com­mu­ni­ty life could be nur­tured," Dar­low said. "The Guapo Beach Fa­cil­i­ty will help to fa­cil­i­tate eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment not on­ly in this com­mu­ni­ty, but al­so in the en­tire South­west Penin­su­la and wider Trinidad and To­ba­go. "There are op­por­tu­ni­ties here to de­vel­op sus­tain­able small busi­ness­es. With ex­cel­lent mar­ket­ing, there are al­so op­por­tu­ni­ties to cre­ate a new gate­way for tourism.

Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty Trinidad and To­ba­go was the project man­ag­er for the fa­cil­i­ty's con­struc­tion.