THE Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), last week, launched its third edition of Business Guyana Magazine. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds was in attendance at the event where it was highlighted that Business Guyana Magazine 2012, is an investor’s guide to doing business in Guyana, and is an annual publication by the GCCI, with the target audience being potential domestic or international investors. It contains information that would guide them towards establishing a business in Guyana.
Delivering the keynote address at the event, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Guyana, Yu Wenzhe alluded to the fact that GCCI is one of the oldest private sector organisations established in Guyana for the promotion of trade and investment, which has, over the years, played a positive role to the social and economic progress of Guyana.
Ambassador Wenzhe, speaking directly to the China-Guyana economic and trade relations and the future of the relationship, explained that the two countries, over the past 40 years, have treated each other as partners of equality and mutual benefit, supporting each other in spite of the changes in the international situation.
Lokesh Singh, Publisher, Business Guyana Magazine 2012 said that his company is particularly pleased to be associated with the GCCI in the publication of this issue of the magazine.
He added that over the past three years, his company has been successful at building a relationship with the GCCI, which has yielded benefits, as the magazine generates a majority of their income, which achieves GCCI’s objectives.
“With regard to the Business Guyana publication, we have seen this project grow in the past three years…it has now positioned itself across the market as the predominant publication for use by anyone interested in investing in the business sector in this country…it is being used by both the public and private sectors in presenting this country to potential business investors,” Singh said.
President and Chairman of Trade and Investment Committee, GCCI, Clinton Urling, spoke of the steps to develop such a publication, and the many adversities the project has outlived to now become a leading source of income for the Chamber.
“We persevered and three years later we have a product that is of the highest quality and one that represents the third highest income generator for the Chamber,” Urling said.
The magazine which is the brainchild of Urling, offers its readers insight into the local operations of businesses, based on the perspective of figureheads in the business community, including Mr. Ramesh Dookhoo, past Chairman of the Private Sector Commission.