An “Amazon-like” e-commerce website will soon be launched to market local products made by small businesses to international buyers, President Irfaan Ali announced on Friday.
Ali made the disclosure during the commissioning of the Amazonia Mall at Providence, East Bank Demerara, where he noted that the venture is being privately developed.
According to him, the platform will provide an avenue for small businesses from the coast and hinterland to market their products to the rest of the world.
“Once that is launched, our honey, our beauty products, all the facilities we offer as a country, our indigenous people, women entrepreneurs, they will have an opportunity to join a market that gives them access to the rest of the world,” Ali stated, before pointing out that such initiatives have the potential to contribute to the pockets of households.
Ali said the developers are working to have the platform launched in September. While being tightlipped on further details of the project, he said it is being spearheaded by a Guyanese in the diaspora, who is very big in the logistics business.
