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ERC to host Private Sector confab

Nov 17, 2010 News

– Geared at ensuring equal opportunities and access

Under the theme “Promoting the development of harmonious relations between ethnic groups and removing barriers to the participation; ensuring equal opportunities and access to all,” the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) with support from the United Nations Development Programme will tomorrow host a one-day Private Sector Confab.
The unique conference which will be held at the Princess International Hotel, East Bank Demerara, will kick off in a working luncheon form and will see involvement from the local private sector including reputable bodies such as the Association of Regional Chambers of Commerce, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Consultative Association of Guyanese Industry, according to Chairman of the ERC, Bishop Juan Edghill.
At a media briefing yesterday, Edghill told media operatives that the objective of the forum is to educate and stress on the strategic involvement of the private sector in governance for national change. It is also geared, he said, at sensitising on the importance of diversity in management and to foster racial harmony and social cohesion among the private sector in Guyana.
This by extension, he noted, would promote tolerance, respect and cooperation among the various races and cultures within organisations even as an environment is created which lends to lasting integration among the local private sector.
Additionally, Edghill disclosed that the forum would serve to give emphasis to the importance of equal opportunities and equal access.
“Ever since the year began, the ERC has been in almost every part of Region Four, particularly where major businesses exist, and we have been hosting meetings with the staff. We have been at the banks, the insurance companies, the manufacturers, the producers of various goods and services; wherever people congregated we held meetings with the staff…We discovered that in order for us to effectively do our work talking to the ordinary man is not sufficient; we have to speak with the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officers, the Chief Financial Officers, and more importantly, the Human Resource Directors and in the case of private businesses, the proprietors.”
Tomorrow’s forum will as such see the coming together of the people that make the private sector move, he asserted. “The owners and other managers and directors that deal with employment, discipline, promotion or demotion of persons and how that impacts on ethnic relations will be discussed….”
Even the act of giving out financial support by some organisations to fund certain activities will be addressed, according to Edghill, who noted that a close look would be given to how such actions are interpreted. Further efforts will be made to mobilise the synergies that exist in the private sector to ensure that they are all onboard as part of the core of people in Guyana who have the common interest of moving the country forward in accordance with the National Motto “One People, One Nation, One Destiny,” Edghill stressed yesterday.
And it is the methodology that will be incorporated during the conference, he noted, that will make the forum very important and historic as the keynote speakers during the opening will all be drawn from the local private sector.
Following the working lunch, those in attendance will learn of visions for the future from the Parliamentary Political Parties whose representatives will present political papers in this regard.
The forum will allow for the members of the private sector to ask questions of the parliamentary representatives in highly interactive sessions. Four breakout sessions will follow this segment which will come under the themes: Diversity in management, Human Resource Management, Social Inclusion and Cohesion and the Role of the private sector in promoting harmony, national change and good governance.
The conference is being offered free of cost, but there is a need for persons to register ahead of attending and arrive promptly at the designated venue.

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