Georgetown : The Guyana National Bureau of Standards’ (GNBS’) operational capacity has been enhanced to measurements within the various sectors, including the rice industry and the petroleum sector. The Bureau has acquired a new 30- tonne test truck and 500- litre test measure.
The test truck valued $38M will be used by GNBS to conduct verification of weighbridge scales (truck scales) used in the agricultural, transportation, industrial and retail sectors. The test measure, an investment of $6.2M will improve the capability of GNBS to conduct verification of flow meters used at petrol terminals, airports and other private entities, thus ensuring that accuracy is maintained.
The two assets were formally commissioned by Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce (ag) Irfaan Ali and Executive Director (ag,) GNBS, Evadnie Enniss.
“This is indeed a welcoming sign and indeed an important aspect of us improving our competitiveness, of us enhancing our ability to better service the community and better enable the business environment to operate within international standards,” Minister Ali said.
The world, and the business environment are changing at a rapid pace and standards are becoming critical aspects of that transformation. It is becoming an important dimension in determining how successful businesses are, he said.
Minister Ali advised that GNBS has been constantly working on enhancing its capacity; institutional, physical and infrastructure, “to bring ourself up to date with the necessary skills, the necessary competence and necessary assets that will enable us to ensure we provide the legislative and the environmental framework through which businesses can accomplish the important objective of improving their competitiveness through standards.”
He shared the view that the GNBS has some of the best trained human resources in the Caribbean. “This is something we should be proud of in terms of certification and in terms of their ability to provide guidance and institutional strengthening, not only to government services, but to the private sector,” he said. The Minister pointed out however that there has not been active use by the private sector of the trained human resource skills that exist at the GNBS.
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