The Pri­vate Sec­tor Com­mis­sion and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try have both wel­comed the Gov­ern­ment’s “Project Res­cue George­town”, which aims to clean up, beau­ti­fy and re­turn George­town to its past glo­ry of be­ing a Gar­den City.

In a state­ment on Fri­day , the Pri­vate Sec­tor Com­mis­sion said years of par­ti­san ob­struc­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tive fail­ures have left the city with clogged drains, garbage-strewn streets, de­te­ri­o­rat­ing roads, di­lap­i­dat­ed mar­kets, and ne­glect­ed pub­lic spaces.

The PSC said those con­di­tions have not on­ly un­der­mined the qual­i­ty of life for cit­i­zens but have al­so con­strained in­vest­ment, trade, and the ease of do­ing busi­ness.

The Com­mis­sion said it wel­comes “Project Res­cue George­town” as a time­ly and nec­es­sary re­sponse. It wants to see the or­gan­i­sa­tion of vend­ing zones and im­proved ur­ban or­der that will cre­ate a safer and more ef­fi­cient en­vi­ron­ment for com­merce.

Ac­cord­ing to the PSC, as busi­ness­es, it knows that George­town is the first place most in­vestors will see in Guyana, and there is on­ly one chance to make a good first im­pres­sion.

The George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce in a sep­a­rate state­ment said as Guyana’s busi­ness land­scape con­tin­ues to evolve, the dri­ve to en­hance the city will al­so lend to a more in­vestor-friend­ly en­vi­ron­ment.

The Cham­ber not­ed that the ini­tial plans in­clude keen fo­cus on sus­tain­able ur­ban de­vel­op­ment, her­itage preser­va­tion, bio­di­ver­si­ty, cit­i­zen en­gage­ment, up­grad­ed drainage net­works, ar­chi­tec­tur­al restora­tion, waste man­age­ment and city up­keep.