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Green-lighting of 20% of state contracts for small businesses should be high priority - Stabroek News

Under the previous political administration, two Ministers of Government, first, the then Finance Minister Winston Jordan and afterwards, Dominic Gaskin in his capacity as Minister of Business, made public what they said was government’s intention to usher in the full and effective implementation of the provision in the 2004 Small Business Act to allow for small businesses to access 20 per cent of state contracts in circumstances where the effective completion of those contracts lay within the scope of their competence.

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