Corruption spotlight must focus on business sector ‘bribers’, Ramotar says

President Donald Ramotar

While tacitly acknowledging that corruption exists in state-run agencies, Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar says efforts to tackle corruption in the society must also focus on “the business community” where he says “the bribers are located.

“We have to deal with it [corruption] from both ends. We must make this intolerable. We must make the morality of our society strong enough for anyone to resist giving a bribe and for any official to resist accepting a bribe,” President Ramotar declared at the Wednesday April 17 opening session of a Financial Crimes Stakeholder