Last weekend’s persistent bad weather almost ruined Bartica’s first ever product and service expo, though a lucky break in the weather on Saturday caused the local Chamber of Commerce to succeed in making its point about the significance of the event and more particularly, of Bartica.
This was no GuyExpo by any stretch of the imagination. Bartica’s claim to an economic credential revolves around its geographic position as the gateway to the country’s gold-rich interior and if anything its 20-odd hotels and guest houses and its host of diners and other services associated with the transiting of people and goods lays barer its role as a key outpost for miners heading in and out of the interior.
Some Barticians have invested in the gold industry as have a number of non Barticians who have made the community home;