-Caricom roundtable hears
Stakeholders at a Postal Reform Roundtable Conference said one of the steps that can be taken to overcome the challenges of reforming the postal system is to view it as a communication business.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who delivered the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the two-day meeting held at the Caricom Secretariat, reiterated the need for regional communities to work together towards the reformation. Hinds said when he first took responsibility for the postal sector in Guyana 20 years ago it was steeped in the old British system and its survival was already threatened. However, reforms in the New Zealand Postal System were noted and Guyana initiated some of them.
According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release the prime minister said funds from the post office itself facilitated persons from the New Zealand postal system helping with the reformation; however, this was only partially successful due to the lack of sufficient financing to bring about the amount of change that the system truly needed.
Hinds noted that within the last decade there have been many changes, with the rapid emergence and advancement of the Information and Communication Technology sector. He also said some persons may hold the opinion that
