Small businesses could secure an important breakthrough in the near future if plans by the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) to make adjustments to its membership criteria to accommodate business enterprises which have traditionally failed to find a home amongst the country’s more established commercial enterprises come to fruition.
While promises of expanding the membership of the Chamber pre-dates the election of the current executive, newly elected President Clinton Urling has, since assuming the office a few weeks ago, made several references to what he says is the organization’s plans to find a way of expanding its membership to take on board some of the more modest urban business enterprises.
In an exclusive interview with Stabroek Business on Wednesday, Urling emphasized that the Chamber’s efforts to break with its 123-year-old tradition of offering membership to