GMSA wants more promotion of lesser used hard woods

GMSA President Clinton Williams

President of the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) Clinton Williams wants the construction industry to implement a “broad-based education and sensitisation programme” that seeks to absorb larger volumes of lesser known species of Guyana’s hardwoods into the country’s building sector.

Williams, who was recently returned as GMSA President said in a message printed in the 2013 edition of Build Guyana, published to mark this year’s International Building Expo that the abundant availability of other species of wood ought to push the building sector in that direction.

However, Managing Director of Farfan and Mendes Ltd Andrew Mendes, whose company includes a