Gov’t to engage big companies operating here on procuring ‘intermediate goods’ from local suppliers

Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin

Large and multinational companies operating in Guyana are to be engaged by government with a view to determining whether local suppliers can provide them with some categories of goods currently being imported from overseas.

The recently released 2016-2020 Strategic Plan promulgated by the Ministry of Business says that a workshop is to be conducted with those companies “to determine which of their currently imported intermediate goods could be procured locally from an existing supplier,