Against the backdrop of what, over several years, has been a failure on the part of government to grant incentives and create opportunities for the meaningful expansion and growth of the micro- and small-business sector in Guyana, one of the country’s high-profile Business Support Organizations (BSOs) has issued a call for the government to ‘change gears,’ and to throw its weight more purposefully behind modest business ventures even as these continue to become manifestly worn down by the various pressures associated with the advent of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Saturday last, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) used its customary media assessment of the country’s annual budget to call for “an expansion of the grant component” on funding provided by the country’s Small Business Bureau (SBB) “to further improve small businesses’ capability and readiness for local content opportunities.”