With government looking to strengthen and improve Guyana’s anti-corruption framework, Chairman of the Private Sector Com-mission Paul Cheong told the second instalment of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance’s accountability and transparency workshop that graft undermines businesses and threatens inves-tors’ confidence in the country.
“No country can afford to allow corruption to take root in society, not in the public or private sector. Once corruption invades or permeates a society it becomes insidious and undermines businesses, it threatens security, it threatens and drives away investors altogether. It ultimately criminalizes every activity whether business, the public service, professionals [and] even in sport. Eventually, it will bring down any society or organization or persons involved,” Cheong yesterday told the gathering of the private sector and civil society representatives.