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Fair trade competition must be enforced- Director
From left: Ramesh Dookoo and Cecil Rajana
Earnest efforts are being made by the National Competitive Strategy Unit (NCSU) to ensure that a law enacted by the government in 2006 becomes operational to enable fair trading competition.
This disclosure was made by, Cecil Rajana, Director of the NCSU, which comes under the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce.
Rajana, at a press briefing held at the Waterloo Street office of the Private Sector Commission yesterday, said that Government has already taken a critical step in this regard by appointing Commissioners to a vital Commission.
According to Rajana, although the Commission has as its chairman, business mogul Ramesh Dookoo, it in fact has a very good balance of people including the likes of Consumer Advocate, Pat Dyal.
The NCSU Director noted though that some people might want to question “why we are putting the cat in charge of the milk here by making him (Dookoo) chairman, but I think that we will be able to tame him…”
The two will be moderated by two other members, Adrian Anamayah, a lawyer by profession; and Financial Analyst, Mr Keith Burrowes, Rajana disclosed.
And according to him the NCSU is in the process of establishing a Secretariat to make the commission operational.
The NCSU, Rajana said, is currently in the process of appointing some people. Three people have already been interviewed.
However, the critical positions of and Executive Director and two Directors are yet to be filled.
“We are constrained by resources a little bit, not only in terms of supporting the appointments of such individuals who will have to be reasonably paid in order to attract good candidates.
Likewise, because we are new we need to develop a database; we need to develop regulations, we need to train people and we need to do a variety of things…”
And in order not to over tax the resources of the government, Rajana said that the NCSU has applied to the Caribbean Development Bank for some assistance with the establishment of the Commission.
Added to the NCSU list of priorities, Dookoo lauded the entity for putting measures in place in order to protect consumers.
According to the Chairman of the Commission through the NCSU legislations have been drafted and efforts are being made to enact new legislation on consumer protection policies, which should be in place later this year.
And it will be the tasks of the Commission to police that piece of legislation as is already customary within the rest of the Caribbean.
With all of the intensified efforts of the NCSU, Guyana is complying with its obligation under the treaty of Chaguaramas to enact competition policies and competition laws, and now consumer protection policies.
Accordingly, Guyana is now elevated to a higher plane in terms of consumer protection issues, asserted Dookoo.
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