Planned this year to coincide with Guyana’s 50th anniversary independence celebrations, the May 12-15 GuyExpo will not only attempt to push for even higher levels of involvement by the Guyanese entrepreneurial community in the diaspora but will also be geared to ensure more aggressive domestic and international promotion of local enterprises with a view to enhancing their marketing prospects both at home and abroad and by extension ensuring the economic growth of Guyanese businesses.
And in order to ensure the full and effective participation in the event by representatives of the Guyanese community in the diaspora, event Chairperson Dawn Holder-Alert and Coordinator Tameca Sukdeo-Singh will meet diaspora representatives in New York on April 2 and 3 to discuss their involvement. Stabroek Business understands that those engagements will enable discussion on, among other things, the participation of overseas-based Guyanese businesses in GuyExpo.
Earlier this week, Stabroek Business met and spoke with Sukdeo-Singh who said that this year’s showpiece product promotion event will assume a more business-oriented character,