Guyana experience is a lesson for Caribbean countries, says CDB president | ||
Published on July 2, 2013 – Caribbean News Now – GINA | ||
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) — There are some interesting lessons for the rest of the Caribbean region to learn from the road Guyana has travelled, having moved from a deep abyss to a position of enjoying seven years of uninterrupted growth up to 2012 at a rate of 4.5 percent per annum.
This is the view of Dr William Warren Smith, president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), who noted that Guyana’s growth did not start seven years ago, but that those who have been around for a while would be familiar with the challenges that the country had been experiencing over too long a period of time. “Those of us who are from the region have always known about, talked about and hoped for the blossoming of the Guyana potential,” Smith said during a recent interview. Continue reading |
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