APNU+AFC gov’t will look to Brazil to support Guyana’s technological growth

Presidential candidate David Granger (left) shares a moment with Sir Shridath Ramphal during Tuesday’s forum at the Pegasus Hotel.

Closer technological ties with Brazil will be one of the focal points of an expanded economic diplomacy demarche under an APNU-AFC coalition as a means of giving greater impetus to private sector development, opposition presidential candidate David Granger has told the Stabroek Business.

Speaking with this newspaper exclusively shortly after he had addressed a forum organized by the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) at the Pegasus Hotel on Wednesday Granger said he believed that the previous administration had failed to take any significant advantage of the opportunities afforded for technological development on account of the country’s close ties with Guyana over many years.

During his interview with Stabroek Business Granger repeated and expanded on the view which he expressed in his