The validity of official assertions targeting potential investors that Guyana is “open for business” cannot be sustained in circumstances where, so often, the authorities demonstrate “a lack of capacity to protect the local business community from vicious criminal attacks,” Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Clinton Urling says. Responding to a question put to him by the Stabroek Business, Urling said that we delude ourselves “if we immagine for one moment that the perception that the prívate sector is uniquely vulnerable to criminal attacks does not result in diminished investor confidence in the local business climate.”
A series of violent robberies on Monday targeting a Rubis filling station, a popular auto dealer and a shop in Guyhoc Park prompted a strongly worded release from the chamber. Apart from asserting that the chamber was “alarmed and unsettled” over the number of robberies directed at city business houses,
