Ramesh Dookhoo elected GMSA President

Ramesh Dookhoo elected GMSA President
Kaieteur News, 20 March 2008

Banks D.I.H Executive, Ramesh Dookhoo, has been elected President of
the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association Ltd. (GMSA) for
2008-2009.
He was elected at the first meeting of the Board on Wednesday
following the Association’s Annual General Meeting held last Thursday
at the GMSA’s Headquarters at the Sophia Exhibition Complex. Dookhoo
previously served as President from 2002-2004.
Terry Holder of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company is the
First Vice President while Anthony Ross of Sterling Products was
elected as Second Vice President. Autamaram Lakeram of National Milling
Company of Guyana is the third Vice President.
Expressing his appreciation for the confidence the Board had expressed
in him, Dookhoo acknowledged that there was a great deal of work to be
done by the Association, operating as it does in a challenging business
environment.
He emphasized the need for the established Committees to function
effectively and stressed the importance of the work of the Trade and
Investment and the Policy and Legislative Committees. He called on the
Chairmen of the various sub-sectors to take effective control of those
areas.
The Chairs of the various sub-sectors are Ross (Agro-Processing),
Somat Ali (Construction & Engineering), Major General (ret’d) Norman Mc
Lean (Minerals & Related Industries), Neil Fraser (Services), Mr.
Rustum Bulkan (Forestry and Wood Products) and Jimmy Lorrimer (Printing
& Packaging). The Chairs of the Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
sub-sector and Textiles and Sewn Goods sub-sector are still to be
nominated, GMSA said in a press statement yesterday.
The other members elected to the Board at the AGM were George
Robinson, Oscar Phillips, Clement Duncan, Fitzroy Fletcher, John
Peroune, Earl John, Jocelyn Dow, Peter Pompey, Raymond Ramsaroop and
Mark Bender.