By Patricia Bacchus
The restructuring of the Guyana Office for Investment commenced in 2015 with a thorough assessment of the agency’s management structure, systems of internal control and governance and the effectiveness in the discharge of its mandate. Arising from this exercise over the last two years, a number of implements have been put in place to elevate the functionality and effectiveness of the agency and to ensure that investors receive quality investment facilitative services. On behalf of the Members of the Board of GO-Invest, it is my pleasure to share with you some of these initiatives.
One of the earliest strategies relate to the composition of the agency’s board, in light of the fact that the agency was once intended to be a one-stop shop for investments, but was never legally mandated to operate this way. The Minister of Business recognized that one measure that could ensure better coordination of investment facilitation and export promotion was to
