Even as Jamaica prepares for its June 2015 6th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference under the theme ‘Jamaica and the Diaspora: Linking for Growth and Prosperity,’ one of Guyana’s prominent hoteliers and businessmen believes that more closely embracing Guyanese in the diaspora as investors in the country’s economy is a direction which the new Granger administration is likely to take.
Chief Executive Officer of the Pegasus Hotel Robert Badal told Stabroek Business in an extended interview earlier this week that serious engagements between Guyanese in the diaspora and the new administration would be a logical corollary to the interface that ensued between the APNU-AFC coalition and overseas-based Guyanese during the elections campaign. “It is a direction in which I would expect the government to go in order to attract investment and other forms of support for Guyana from the diaspora,†Badal said.
The Guyana Elections Commission will be gazetting the 2015 General and Regional Election results along with the list of Parliamentarians provided by the APNU+AFC governing coalition this week with or without the submission of the opposition’s list.
Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield told Stabroek News yesterday that after discussions with both Gecom’s legal counsel, Juanita Barker, and PPP/C-appointed Commissioner, Sase Gunraj, the commission had resolved that there were no legal complications with the gazetting
