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He added, “Employment inflation is another thing that’s affecting us here. Most of the brains of the country are heading out to the oil companies and the subcontractors of the oil companies and you can’t blame them because they’re being well paid.”

President of the GCCI, Timothy Tucker related that the company has shown resiliency and diversification as he urged for Guyanese products to be on the regional market.

“Do what was not done for you by reaching out to local manufacturers and taking those products and distributing those as well...Put Guyanese products in those countries.

Work with Banks DIH to be their distributor outside of Guyana. You are the ideal person to be Guyana’s distributor throughout the Caribbean,” Tucker encouraged.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Private Sector Commission, Paul Cheong, expressed that the warehouse is a testimony to Suri’s willingness to go above and beyond to service the local market, and create employment opportunities and confidence to invest in the economy.

“This expansion will contribute positively to the economic development in the year and provide a significant boost to economic development. In addition, the opening of the new warehouse demonstrates continued growth and success. It reflects the company’s commitment to innovation, investment in infrastructure efforts to keep up with Guyana’s changing market demands.”

According to Minister within the Housing Ministry Susan Rodrigues, businesses can only thrive in a positive investment climate. In this light, she highlighted the importance of visionary leadership.

“It is important for them to have an economy in our country in which they are allowed to thrive. And that is very, very critical. That takes visionary leadership. A lot of people questioned the investments that we have been making in infrastructure. What to do, we’re coming in here and we see there’s still more work to do,” Rodrigues underscored.

She signalled that Guyanese anywhere in the diaspora can make an ap- plication online should they want to invest. Through this technology, fairness and transparency in the system is achieved.

“It removes all subjectivity from the system. And so, we are moving towards a Government that relies heavily on technology. We understand the importance of harnessing technology and overall development and in many, many sectors you will see this transition over to digitising everything and this is important for governance for accountability, and transparency,” she concluded. (G-12)