The optimization of the potential of Guyana’s manufacturing sector requires a far more robust and energetic business support organization to effectively serve the interests of local manufacturers, proprietor of Fibre-Tech Industrial Plastics Somat Ali has told the Stabroek Business.
A re-migrant from Canada whose Agriculture Road, Triumph fibre plastics enterprise turned 23 in May this year, Ali said that while he was satisfied that his own enterprise had made a mark both at home and in sections of the international market, he was concerned that the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association (GMSA) needed to transform itself into “a far more effective lobby group” for the broader business sector.
And according to Ali, one of the biggest failings of the GMSA was its “failure over the years to mobilize small manufacturers.” He said while small manufacturers “probably comprise the bulk of the small business sector” there had been little if any evidence of a serious effort to
