THE US$58M flagship Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown, opens its doors on Thursday to the public with an Official Ribbon Cutting Ceremony – a feat despite the naysayers, litigation, protests, Parliamentary motions and the plethora of resistance to one of Government’s key developmental projects.The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) is the Government-owned company, lawfully entrusted to pursue investments on behalf of the State, including public-private partnerships and in September, 2009, incorporated Atlantic Hotel Inc. (AHI), the Special Purpose Company to pursue the Marriott project.
Controversially built with taxpayer money, the US$58M Guyana Marriott Hotel was commissioned by President Donald Ramotar yesterday during a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a grand opening reception attended by a few hundred persons in the evening.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony Stabroek News spoke with Xu Han, one of the potential Hong Kong- based private investors who said that he was pleased with the 197-room hotel and hopes that the legal action filed by an opposition activist is resolved soon.