Corruption needs to be addressed by gov’t, private sector

Greg Quinn

-says keen attention will be paid to 2020 elections

The private sector is the driver of economic development and entrepreneurship is the driver of the private sector. British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn, argued on Friday that a recognition of these facts should inspire Guyanese stakeholders to improve the country’s perception of corruption and ease of doing business scores.

Speaking at the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association’s (GMSA) 22nd Annual Presentation Awards Dinner on Friday, Quinn noted that Guyana’s score on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Index Report is “unacceptably low”

In 2016 Guyana ranked 108 out of 176 countries with a score of 34, the highest it has ever scored. For 2015, Guyana was ranked 119 with a score of 29 while in 2014, 2013 and 2012 it scored 30, 27 and 28 respectively. Quinn however argued that anything under 50 shows a “failure to tackle corruption.”