Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin last Wednesday confirmed that there had been a financial shortfall in the returns from last November’s Business Exposition staged by government to create a market opportunity for the small business sector and that prize winners in the Business Pitch competition staged as part of the event were indeed yet to receive their prizes.
“There are five persons involved and I myself only learnt about the shortfall last week and we are arranging to let them have their monies by next week,” Gaskin told Stabroek Business. He said that the amount owing to the prize winners