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GOVERNANCE & ADVOCACY

Government Ministers and agencies representatives met with the President and Members of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association Ltd.

Removing barriers to trade, manufacturing

growth and competitiveness…

GMSA, Govt commence

Inter-Ministerial Roundtable

engagements

he Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) by Finance Minister Winston Jordan during his feature address
in a bid to remove existing barriers to trade, manufacturing at the 2017 GMSA Dinner. He later obtained the full approval and
Tgrowth and the competitiveness of the local manufacturing support of Cabinet for the arrangement after the agreement of
sector agreed to participate in a series of Ministerial Round Table the GMSA and its Executives.
engagements with the Government of Guyana which are aimed
at adopting a coordinated approach towards boosting the growth The First Round Table, with focus on the Forestry and Wood
and development of the country’s manufacturing and services Processing Sector, was chaired by the Minister of Finance and
sector that can have a long term positive effect on Guyana’s attended by a seven member team from the GMSA led by
macroeconomic dynamics and fiscal policy. President Shyam Nokta and including Mr. Andre Cummings, Mr.
Neil Chand, Mr. Andrew Mendes, Mr. Mohabir Singh, Mr. George
The Inter-Ministerial Roundtable Meetings were first proposed Bulkan and Ms. Nerissa Thornhill. From the Government side,

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