At a public round table business event at the Pegasus in the presence of visiting India MEA Dr S Jaishankar, an announcement was made that a Guyana-India Chamber of Commerce was formed. It is led by former Guyana and West Indies international cricketer and current selector Ramnaresh Sarwan. The announcement is President of the formation of the chamber was announced at a business roundtable where India’s Foreign Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was the featured speaker.
The logo for the newly-formed business organisation was unveiled at the roundtable where Dr Jaishankar said he and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) foreign ministers agreed that there should be an annual business summit. “We agreed that it would be our endeavour every year to hold an India-CARICOM business summit- one year in the Caribbean, one year in India- so I’m pointing this out to CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) with the hope that it will be an early mover in this regard,” he said.