Bilateral relations have now been bolstered following the Ghana Chamber of Commerce-Guyana launch, at Church and New Garden streets, Queenstown, yesterday morning, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.
The first of its kind to be established in the Caribbean, Guyana and Ghana will work together in many areas, including oil and gas, tourism and agriculture, DPI said.
With the establishment of the chamber, Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill appealed to the Ghanaian Government to work with the Guyana Government to operationalise the air services pact inked between the two nations in 2019.
“We have signed an air services agreement with Ghana and it’s now up to the private sector…both here and in Ghana to operationalise an airline in keeping with those terms and conditions and freedoms,” the minister with responsibility for aviation said.
Speaking on behalf of his country, Ghana’s Minister for Trade and Industry, Kobina Hammond said with a firm base in Guyana, businessmen and women can sit and focus on key areas in which their countries can be developed.
“This is commerce, this is trade, we are talking about industrialisation, we are talking about the development of our respective countries. But you cannot produce, industrialise, and keep all the products produced in your country. There have to be some sort of trading relationship between countries,” the Ghanaian minister said, according to DPI.
Meanwhile, Chief Executive Officer of Go Invest, Dr Peter Ramsaroop believes the undertaking will bring together the various sectors.
“These are all great initiatives. It allows Guyana’s private sector, with government’s support and regulations and other incentives, to build global sectors, and when you build global sectors you can increase competitiveness,” Dr Ramsaroop, said, according to DPI..
