Business community ‘obsessed’ with crime challenge, Gouveia says

A meeting of the Security and Governance Committee of the Private Sector Commission

A senior Private Sector Commission (PSC) official has told Stabroek Business that the Guyanese business community is currently afflicted with a low level of confidence in the state of the local security environment, particularly the ineffectiveness of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to curb the proliferation of crime.

According to the private sector official, “we need to come to terms with the fact that where there is a sense of uncertainty about the safety of the environment in which we do business, investment will inevitable suffer. While we have made some measure of progress over the past five years,