01/11/2023
โChance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.โ
โ Marcus Garvey
Irfaan Ali, President of Guyana ๐ฌ๐พ and keynote speaker at the Africaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2023 charged the private sector of the Africa and Caribbean region be the engine of growth as governments are the facilitators of growth.
Ali identified the following areas as critical to economic growth of both regions:
1. Modernization of mechanization (systems);
2. Digitization; and
3. Innovation.
There was a clarion call for related capital injection in these areas.