Dismissing concerns being expressed here that local small businesses may not be benefiting – compared with their counterparts in other Cariforum countries – from financial resources for enhancing growth and building capacity available through the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce Dhaneshwar Deonarine is urging that they submit proposals for Direct Assistance Grants under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF).
Deonarine is Caribbean Export’s Guyana board member.
Concerns had been expressed by some local businesses that information on funding and other types of support