The long-awaited Cabrits Resort and Spa is a few months away from making its contribution to the Dominican economy...this from Parliamentary Representative of the Portsmouth Constituency, Hon Ian Douglas.
Hon Douglas, speaking at the construction site on Thursday, says Government is currently in the process of reviewing five proposals of interest for management.
Hon. Douglas indicated that a technical committee has been in put in place for reviewing all of those expressions of interest. The technical committee will consequently make recommendations to a Cabinet sub-committee which will ultimately make a recommendation to Cabinet.
He said “the technical committee will take into consideration a number of factors.” These factors include a best marketing strategy and government equity contribution.
The Parliamentary Representative told Gis news that he is quite pleased with the amount and standard of work being put into the project. He informed that the restaurant, security block and entrance lobby to the hotel are already complete.
In addition he indicated, “The electrical and plumbing on buildings one, two and part of building three have been completed. We are just going to transition into other aspects of the construction like tiling and painting. Overall we are about 75% to 80% complete.”
Hon Douglas commented on the current economic benefits of the ongoing project, one of which is an informal apprenticeship programme.
He revealed the intention to have young Tilers understudy professionals from Morocco when that section of the work begins. “We are going to have some expert professional tillers here. We want to try to transfer that skill of Moroccan experts to young persons in Dominica; not only to create employment but at the end of the day to allow those young people to learn a skill at the highest level so that even after the hotel is built and the Moroccans go back home the skill set will be available in Dominica for future and other projects of that type and magnitude.”
The Cabrits Resort and Spa is tangible evidence of the relationship between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Commonwealth of Dominica.