Senior government and private sector officials including President Donald Ramotar and the heads of the country’s major Business Support Organisations (BSOs) will participate in what is being billed as a major two-day National Economic Forum (NEF) to discuss “key emerging issues relevant to Guyana’s development”, while outlining a vision of where Guyana wants to be in the next two decades.
Public and private sector officials who have spoken with Stabroek Business about the August 15-16 forum say the event seeks to parallel in significance the May 2006 presidential summit on private sector development held under the auspices of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) and the subsequent September 2011 public/private sector forum held at the National Conference Centre under the theme ‘Partnering to Promote Economic Growth and Development’.
According to information made available to this newspaper, the
