No comment on 'atrocious' rooms remark - Le Meridien manager
Stabroek News
January 6, 2007
The General Manager of Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel has "no comment" to make on President Bharrat Jagdeo's remarks that the rooms at the international hotel were "atrocious."
Contacted about the President's response at a press conference last week when asked whether Le Meridien was among those hotels being advanced sums of money for accommodation for the teams, officials, media and sponsors (TOMS) for the ICC CWC 2007 championships, the hotel's General Manager Pascal Mongeau said he had no comment on the issue.
Jagdeo had said that, if he had anything to do with it, "Le Meridien, because they make a ton of money I'd take more from them. They make a ton of money, they have a monopoly on the market, the rooms are atrocious, they are not reinvesting in the country. They skin the market and take all the money abroad. I wish I could take more from them."
Stabroek News has been trying to contact Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Manniram Prashad to find out whether the government had ever raised the issue of the rooms at Le Meridien Pegasus when he served as government's representative on the hotel's board of directors but has had no response.