GCCI seeks political support for national development plan

In the face of expected resources from oil and gas, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has developed a strategic policy plan for Guyana’s development and is pleading with politicians to implement it whether the government changes or not.

As next year’s general and regional elections loom, the organisation is also hoping that voters focus on similar policy programmes planned by political parties and not vote along racial lines or based on party loyalty.

“The GCCI believes that in order to prepare our country for a new era in its history, we need to have a single all encompassing, nationally bought into development plan, not a plan that will be thrown out at successive elections,” GCCI President Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer on Thursday evening told the organisation’s 130th anniversary gala dinner and awards, held at the Marriott Hotel.