While the paradigms of a relationship between the new political administration and the local private sector are yet to take definitive shape, Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Norman McLean earlier this week at a forum at the Pegasus Hotel, pledged the business community’s “unreserved support” for the administration’s national development programme though he was quick to add that the private sector intended to hold the government’s feet to the fire.
Some private sector leaders have already held meetings with President David Granger and while Stabroek Business understands that arising out of the meeting the PSC is in the process of planning a national economic forum in which government will participate, the posture of the business community has been a largely low-key one since the new administration entered office.
Just over two weeks ago Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin challenged the assertion that business has slowed down significantly since the May 11 general elections though President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Lance Hinds told this
