{"id":32288,"date":"2024-01-25T23:15:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=32288"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:18:03","slug":"100m-fisheries-vessel-not-in-use-as-skills-unavailable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/100m-fisheries-vessel-not-in-use-as-skills-unavailable\/","title":{"rendered":"$100m fisheries vessel not in use as skills unavailable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana<\/p>\n<p>A nearly $100m vessel for the fisheries department of the Ministry of Agriculture has not been in use since 2020 as the personnel needed are not available.<\/p>\n<p>This was the explanation given by the Ministry of Agriculture in the 2022 Report of the Office of the Auditor General which was tabled in parliament two Mondays ago.<\/p>\n<p>The audit office report said that a contract was awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board in December 2018 in the sum of $99.3m. Amounts totalling $98.5m were paid on the contract as at December 31, 2020 and the vessel was received in April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026however, at the time of reporting it was not put into use\u201d, the audit office said. When asked for an explanation, the Head of the Budget Agency said that the Fisheries Department has indicated that the marine vessel \u201chas not been operationalized as yet due to the lack of skilled personnel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The audit office recommended that the ministry take steps to recruit the relevant personnel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2023\/12\/19\/news\/guyana\/100m-fisheries-vessel-not-in-use-as-skills-unavailable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: pexels-pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana A nearly $100m vessel for the fisheries department of the Ministry of Agriculture has not been in use since 2020 as the personnel needed are not available. This was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":32289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[250],"tags":[311,116,144],"class_list":["post-32288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-articles","tag-agriculture-fisheries","tag-guyana","tag-marineshipping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pexels-pixabay-262353-scaled-e1706210074574.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-8oM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33040,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/agri-minister-says-works-underway-on-pump-station-controversially-awarded-to-tepui\/","url_meta":{"origin":32288,"position":0},"title":"Agri Minister says works underway on pump station controversially awarded to Tepui","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"March 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana \u2013 despite serious complaint before procurement commission Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday announced that works had started on January 30th on the Belle Vue Pump station controversially awarded to the company, Tepui despite the fact that serious complaints have been made about its ineligibility for the task. 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