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GOVERNANCE & ADVOCACY

GMSA fosters closer ties with Go-Invest,

Govt. Food and Drugs Department

….pushes for improved access to incentives, reduction

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GMSA Members listen attentively to the presentation from Mr. Marlon
Cole, Director of Guyana Food & Drug Department.

he Guyana Manufacturing and Services Limited (GMSA) has significantly improve the relations between the GMSA and these
embarked on a campaign to foster ties with the Guyana bodies.
TOffice for Investment (GO-INVEST) and the Government’s
Food and Drug Analyst Department (GFDAD) with the aim of The engagements with GO-INVEST and GFDAD were held
improving the quality of service these two entities prove to the separately in the GMSA’s boardroom on Waterloo Street,
local manufacturing and services access while boosting GMSA’s Georgetown.
access to the incentives and pool of resources available via these
governmental agencies. At the first meeting in 2017 with GFDAD, GMSA’s President
Shyam Nokta welcomed the entity’s Executive Director Marlon
As such, GMSA members met with the Heads of both entities and Cole as he informed that a recent meeting of the GMSA Board
their representatives on Thursday, July 17, 2017 and Wednesday, of Directors, it was decided that the Association should once
September 13, 2017 respectively to have frank discussions about again engage the GFDD to provide updates on initiatives of
the challenges facing the country’s local manufacturing sector, the Department with emphasis on issues of importance to the
the policies being implemented by the two Government entities manufacturing sector.
and the establishment of a series of mechanisms that could

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