GRAN CHEMIN FISHING CENTRE OPENS

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At a cost of just over 66 million dollars, the Gran Chemin  fishing facility was opened on Friday, one Government Minister warns constituents that voting for the UNC caused a delay in the PNM's vision for Moruga and they should keep this in mind for the upcoming general election.

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00:00Grand Chimay has a spanking new fishing facility. Opened on Friday afternoon the

00:06amenities include a boat repair area, a net repair area and berthing for two

00:12Coast Guard vessels. So we have a wave barrier along this leg here we have a

00:20wave barrier there that's on the southern leg and on the northern leg or

00:24the northern section we have we have a boom an armored rock boom and what that

00:34does it renders the the water in here calm and for use by the the boaters here

00:43at all weathers. Mr. George chairs the company overseeing construction. He

00:50promises optimal functionality only after the seaside component is

00:54completed. Today marks the handing over of the land component at a cost of sixty

01:00six point one million dollars. For the trade and industrial minister here's not

01:05just a place to buy and sell fish. It's a space beyond storage but it's a space

01:10that allows for people who have or who can attain particular skills for instance

01:17boat mechanics who can do all of the fix all of the boats and and do repairs

01:23and so on. Painters all of those involved in the fiberglass business as well. With

01:2829 bona fide fishing vessels at Grand Chimay and 56 in Larrafin we estimate

01:36that 170 fisher folk will be using this facility to ply their trade. Beyond the

01:43fisher folk themselves the site will also serve 20 workers including vendors

01:49gear and vessel makers among others who play an equally important role in the

01:56fishing sector. But it would take the works and transport minister to issue

02:00this caution to Moruga constituents benefiting from the PNM government's

02:05vision. That how you vote will determine your future and I say that on the

02:14background that this project was conceptualized under a Patrick Manning

02:22administration a PNM government way back in 2005-2007. This project was supposed

02:30to be started around that time. Unfortunately this project went to sleep

02:38in 2010. You voted a certain way in Moruga Tableland. The Prime Minister took

02:49on political opponents who took offense at the absence of a D in the name Grand

02:55Chimay. At the end of looking for something to criticize us for the best

03:00they could have come up with is the misrepresentation of something saying

03:06that a D is missing. No D is missing. It's a French word. It's called Grand Chimay.

03:13It means the main way. As one who started off as a fisheries officer the Prime

03:19Minister encourages young people to remain invested in agriculture.

03:25Rupanarayan, TV6 News.

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