NDC executive Nazim Burke says improving and enhancing the environment for doing business under a National Democratic Congress government will include the reorganisation of the Grenada Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).

 
According to Burke, the GIDC ought to be streamlined to become a one-stop shop staffed by professionals with expertise in business, finance, accounting, economics, law, information technology, environmental science and financial intelligence.
 
"This (GIDC) must be a genuine one-stop shop where business persons go and know that when they go there, all of the bureaucratic arrangements will be resolved,'' said Burke.  "So we won't have people running up and down and up and down, and getting frustrated with what we are doing.''
 
An economist and lawyer, Burke is the NDC Public Relations Officer and candidate for St. George North East.  He won the seat handily in the 2003 general election.
 
The proposed changes to the GIDC, Burke said, will be implemented within months of the election of the NDC to office.
 
As part of facilitating the business community, Burke promised that an NDC administration would assist advocacy and private sector groups in securing land on which to build a central headquarter.
 
"That way, they will have the benefit of efficiency within one structure,'' said Burke.  "Government, if it is committed to the private sector, and believes the private sector is the engine of growth, and if it believes it must create the enabling conditions, it must be prepared to put its money where its mouth is, and to assist in a genuine way in making something happen.''