Trade Minister leads high-powered delegation to open Ghana Chamber of Commerce in Guyana
Minister for Trade & Industry, Kobina Tahir Hammond, MP, is leading a high-powered delegation to Guyana to commission the Ghana Chamber of Commerce (GCC) in Guyana, and to explore further opportunities for stronger trade and investment ties between Ghana and Guyana.
The delegation includes Dr Bryan Acheampong, Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education Michael Okyere Baafi, deputy minister for trade and industry, Mike Oquaye Jnr., Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Authority, and Fred Kyei Asamoah as the Director-General for the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET).
The commissioning of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce (Guyana), will take place on Monday, 22 May, 2023, on the 3rd Floor, 301 Church and New Garden Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, Guyana. The delegation will however be in Guyana for a period of 5 days.
A statement issued by Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, indicated that the Guyana believes “that the establishment of the Ghana Chamber of Commerce in Georgetown would enhance greatly collaboration between the two countries in the areas of human resource development, commerce, investments, and economic development”.
About Guyana
Guyana is situated in central north of the South American continent with a coastline at the North Atlantic Ocean. Countries with international borders to Guyana are Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela, and it shares maritime borders with Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados.
The country is part of the Guianas, a region in the north-eastern part of the continent on the Guiana Shield, an old stable geological formation that forms a portion of the northern coast. The Guianas are bounded by the Orinoco, Negro, and Amazon rivers and the Atlantic Ocean. It includes Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
The country has a population of 748,000 people (Census 2012). Capital and largest city is Georgetown (pop. 192,000). Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, spoken languages are English (official), but the vast majority of the population speaks Guyanese Creole, an English based Creole, Amerindian languages (including Caribbean and Arawak languages), Indo-Guyanese people also speak Hindi.
Guyana has rich reserves of bauxite, gold and timber, but it struggles to overcome poverty and attract investment to bolster its small economy. Subsistence agriculture on the basis of primitive methods and mining are Guyana’s most important economic activities. The country’s top exports are gold, rice, aluminium ore, and raw sugar.