The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Council of the Chamber has re-elected Nicholas Deygoo-Boyer as its President for the period of 2020/2021.

The decision was made on Tuesday by way of the Chamber’s 130th Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was held virtually.

In 2019, Boyer was first elected as President, hailing from the National Harware Guyana Ltd. In his message to the Chamber he said that despite the challenging environment confronting Guyana, the GCCI continues to improve and evolve.

He said that the GCCI now has over 340 members making it the largest Business Support Organisation (BSO) in Guyana.

Boyer stated that the GCCI’s net surplus was G$7.7million in 2019 an improvement on the previous year’s surplus of G$6.6 million. Meanwhile, Cash and Cash Equivalent have improved from G$30.4 million in 2018 to G$44.2 million in 2019.

Boyer will now continue to head the Chamber’s Executive Management Committee (EMC) which is made up six members.

Others include Timothy Tucker of Rid-O-Pes who has been re-elected as Senior Vice President; Junior Vice President, Anije Lambert of Project Development Consultancy; Treasurer, Kester Hutson of Kester Hutson; Secretary, Shaleeza Shaw of Demerara Bank Limited and Immediate Past President, Deodat Indar of Sterling Products Ltd.

“The membership and Secretariat of the GCCI would like to congratulate the Councillors and the Executives and look forward to their stewardship of the GCCI in these challenging times,” a release from the GCCI stated.

Meanwhile, the Chamber also elected its 21-member Council which in clude the above six along with: Gerald Gouveia Jr. of Roraima Airways; Dr. Roshan Khan of Social Rank Media; Komal Ramnauth of Kojac Marketing Agency; Javed Khan of Republic Bank Guyana Limited; Keon Howard of Winedaysgy; Marisca Jordan of RAMPS Logistics Guyana Inc.; Briony Tiwarie of BK Supermix Inc.; Shaam Outar of A&S Enterprise; Anita Ramprasad of MACORP; Navin Prashad of M.P. Insurance Brokers & Consultants; Dr. Vishnu Doerga of ActionINVEST Caribbean Inc.; Derek Stoby of Muneshwers Limited; Gavin Ramsoondar of JR Ranch Inc.; Khemraj Goberdhan of Diamond Fire & General Insurance Inc. and Samuel Arjoon of Guyana Beverages Inc.