For the vast majority of small business owners who turned up at the recent UncappeD event at the Providence Stadium two weekends ago, the event served as a timely release valve for one of the sectors of the Guyana economy that had suffered most under the punishing regime of the coronavirus pandemic which appears, for the time being at least, to have subsided somewhat.
The Stabroek Business’ engagements with many of the stallholders who turned up at the stadium made no secret of the fact that they were there as part of what they explained were a succession of carefully planned initiatives designed to have them recover from what, in some instances, were the ravages of the pandemic.