GO-Invest investment officers must now sign ‘legally enforceable’ confidentiality agreements

Patricia Bacchus

In an effort to consolidate the integrity of the services which it offers to would-be investors, the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) has put in place a regulation that now requires all of its investment officers to sign legally enforceable confidentiality agreements.

An article written by GO-Invest Chairperson Patricia Bacchus and published in this issue of the Stabroek Business says that the requirement has been put in place “so as to ensure that details of an investor’s proposal or intended proposal is held in the strictest confidence.” The article does not provide any indication as to whether or not the confidentiality of investor information has been an issue for GO-Invest in the past.

In the article Bacchus also alludes to the introduction by the state-run investment facilitation entity of