This column has already commented on the virtues of the initiative spearheaded by former Jamaican prime minister and Caricom elder statesman Percival J Patterson to put together a US$1billion fund to help regional service providers participate in the physical recon-struction of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. It has applauded the efforts of the Guyana Manu-facturers and Services Association (GMSA) and its President Clinton Williams to bring the project to public attention.
At the same time we had noted his stated concern over what he appeared to feel was a certain indifference to the initiative on the part of local business entities though we chose not to make ‘a big deal’ of it at the time. We thought then that we would await the outcome of the teleconferencing exercise among businesses across the region that had been scheduled for Monday and
