Forty youth entrepreneurs will be honoured this Thursday at Brand YOUth’s inaugural forty under forty entrepreneurial awards, being held under the theme ‘Building Bridges, Passing Batons’.
The event, scheduled for 6pm to 8pm at the National Cultural Centre, is expected to see the attendance of Minister of State Joseph Harmon, Minister of Public Telecommunications Catherine Hughes, Minister of Public Affairs Dawn Hastings-Williams, former Opposition Member of Parliament Gail Teixeira, the Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee, among others.
Brand YOUth, a movement said to be “rooted in excellence, unity, community and self-empowerment,” is a Conversations with Selwyn (CWS) initiative. The release said that Brand YOUth evolved out of a vision to see an end to poverty in Guyana, eliminate hunger, realise gender equality, and see Guyana rise to its full potential to become the bread-basket and ‘Silicon Valley’ of the region.