{"id":81985,"date":"2012-12-20T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=81985"},"modified":"2012-12-21T07:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T11:29:44","slug":"private-sector-comes-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/business\/private-sector-comes-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Private sector comes together"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81986\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81986\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/private-sector-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/private-sector-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/private-sector-642x481.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/private-sector-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/private-sector.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the private sector at Thursday&#8217;s launch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten private sector organisations have joined forces and signed a memorandum of understanding which brought to life the \u201cDominica Business Forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The forum was launched on Thursday morning at the Anchorage Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-yves Bonnaire, secretary of Dominica Manufacturers Association, described it as a necessary move since, according to him, it is time the private sector join forces to establish proposals for better policies which will enhance the business climate on the island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ultimate goal for us is to have the necessary dialogue with the public sector and policy makers so we could together build up better policies, react faster to the market because the markets are changing rapidly, we are moving into regional integration at the OECS level, the CARICOM level, things are happening so we have to be ready and we are getting ready today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThe idea is to have a vibrant positive private sector here that can provide the necessary growth that we need; the jobs that we need and I think working hand in hand with the public sector would be a great positive move for the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President of the Dominica Builders and Contractors Association, Stuart Paris is the first chairman of the Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Paris said during his six month tenure as chairman one of the biggest priorities is making the forum a working and functional partner of the government and the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise the private sector cannot exist without the public sector and we need to have an excellent relationship with the government and the public sector as we try to provide representation,&#8221; Paris stressed.\u00a0 \u201cI hope the Dominica Business Forum can bring a level of quality representation to the private sector that it has not seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he aims to make the Forum speak for the private sector in one voice. &#8220;We represent several organisations in the private sector and they all have challenges which are different from each other and we would like to find a harmonised way in which we can articulate the needs of each organisation to where it would serve everybody &#8230;it would give everybody an answer to what is really challenging them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paris, one proposal which he intends to bring to the government is the need for greater access and greater consultation. \u201cWe would like policy makers to know that we don\u2019t think its right to create policies without first consulting the private sector. We would like for when they formulate these policies it would be good and useful to contact this forum and work together with us because working in isolation does not work and is not good for Dominica,\u201d Paris remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is made up of The Dominica Employer\u2019s Federation, the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce, The Builders and Contractors Association of Dominica, the Dominica Hotel and Tourism Association, the Dominica Manufacturers Association, the Dominica Coalition for Service Industry, the National Development Foundation of Dominica, the Dominica Chamber of Agri-Business, DAPEX and the Association of Bankers and Financial Institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten private sector organisations have joined forces and signed a memorandum of understanding which brought to life the \u201cDominica Business Forum.\u201d The forum was launched on Thursday morning at the Anchorage Hotel. 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