Teleperformance call centre opening delayed

Four months after Teleperformance anticipated its grand opening to the Guyanese public, the company is not saying when the local branch of the international call centre will actually be fully up and running.

In an interview in April, the vice-president of operations in Guyana Dr Dale Dan had expressed her hopes of having the call centre up and running by the early part of May. She had described the call centre, located at Camp and Robb streets, as “a beacon of transformation in Guyana,” with the company aiming to provide 1,500 jobs to locals.

It was explained that the company hoped to have 1,500 persons working at the location by