The Guyana Manufactur-ing and Services Association (GMSA) said it has left behind a year in which its own profile as much as the interests of its members was served by its focus on business support initiatives.
The association’s evaluation of its 2011 performance points to initiatives designed to enhance several sectors that fall under its mandate including agro-processing, forestry, and wood-processing, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, construction, engineering and minerals. It said that a number of externally-funded projects in some of these sectors got underway last year and during 2012 it will be seeking to play a monitoring role in the unfolding of those projects.
At the top of the agenda is an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded Energy Efficiency Survey (EES) which includes a significant energy conservation element and which the