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Feb 23, 2011 News
Head of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA), Clinton Williams, last weekend returned from the second CARICOM Private Sector-led forum in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
The forum was held last week primarily to bring on board members of the Haitian Private Business community and ‘encourage their participation in the overall effort to reconstruct the nation’s infrastructure and economy.
It was organized by the Trinidad-based Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) is leading Guyana’s participation.
Last week’s forum in Haiti is the precursor to a larger event titled “The Caribbean Construction Forum” that will take place March 21st and 22nd, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. This meeting will bring together Haitian businessmen and women with their Caribbean counterparts to establish partnerships and work out parameters for bidding for the various construction projects.
Against this initiative, a special fund worth US$1 Billion was officially launched to finance mainly infrastructural development. This fund was established with donor funds and financing from multi-national lending agencies under the auspices of former Prime Minister of Jamaica, P.J. Patterson, is now being managed solely by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and will be disbursed only to Haitian and Caribbean business owners participating in the reconstruction of this CARICOM member state.
The head of the GMSA said that the reconstruction process in Haiti has financial benefits for Guyana’s artisans and business owners involved in Construction and Engineering (including Architects, building contractors and building material suppliers), Manufacturing, Distribution, Agriculture, Transportation logistics, Financial Services and Telecommunications, among others.
“Private sector business owners in Guyana are not being asked to donate their services,” he reiterated, but to offer their considerable expertise without having to compete with companies from metropolitan countries for the same dollar.
To this end, the GMSA will hold a special briefing on Friday 25th February for business owners who are interested in the Haiti Project. The session is scheduled for 10:00 am in the Association’s boardroom, 157 Waterloo St., North Cummingsburg.
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