Just over a year after establishing Global Seafood Distributors at Industrial Site, West Ruimveldt, businesswoman Allison Butters-Grant is set to make another eye-catching public statement.
Next Wednesday, Allison and her husband and business partner, Kerwin will host a number of guests, including senior government officials at a commissioning ceremony for her company’s solar fish dryer, which not only enhances the technological character of its commercial boutique fish processing facility, but also adds to its efficiency.
Modelled after one situated at the Mon Repos home of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute, the solar dryer, Butters-Grant says, reflects the company’s focus “on energy efficiency, waste reduction, water usage, effluents and by-product development opportunities” which she says will help the company “to remain competitive and sustainable in the global marketplace.”
Butters-Grant says that the company’s employment policies are firmly anchored in reaching out to the community in which it operates.
Apart from the area residents which it employs, the company is also working with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) programme, Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme, part of President Barack Obama’s Caribbean Basin Initiative launched here in 2013 in collaboration with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI). SKYE seeks to create skills development and employment for young Guyanese and has as one of its key objectives reducing youth crime and violence.
Butters-Grant says Global Seafood Distribu-tors has “several export partners including clients in Caricom member countries” and that the recent technological addition to the company’s operations will help to provide global consumers “with a more hygienic product without compromising the raw material… and protecting our carbon footprint.”