The Central Corentyne business community may have experienced a drop in commercial activity of between 30 and 40 per cent for this year so far, newly elected President of the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Rafeek Mohammed has said.
Speaking with the Stabroek Business earlier this week just days after his election to the presidency of the chamber, the building contractor said that tackling crime and high unemployment are important prerequisites to boosting commercial activity and transforming the business fortunes of the community.
Crime, particularly, Mohammed said, has been a deterrent to commercial activity. He pointed to what he said was the recent absence of an accustomed spike in business activity during holiday periods—when the number of