After years of lobbying for the updating of the marriage law to facilitate wedding tourism, the Roraima Group of Companies yesterday heard that its efforts could bear fruit by this time next year.
This was the message delivered at the opening of the 10th Wedding Expo yesterday at the Duke Lodge in Kingston, Georgetown, by Director General of the Department of Tourism Donald Sinclair. Sinclair informed attendees that the proposal was raised in discussion with the Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix, who related to him that the issue is at the Attorney General’s Chambers and he is expecting to see progress before the next year’s expo.
The Group’s Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia yesterday used the expo’s opening to make another call for the archaic laws on marriage to be changed in order to facilitate the promotion of wedding tourism.
“When the wedding expo started,
