These are challenging times for the jewellery industry. Fast rising food prices and the more general rise in the cost of living have reduced the levels of disposable income among ordinary Guyanese, impacting on their ability to indulge in the time-worn pursuit of buying jewellery; but the Maraj brothers say that it will take more than tough times to cause them to loose faith in the jewelry industry. They continue to run their famed family business on the principle that tough people outlast tough times.

L. Seepersaud Maraj & Sons was inherited by the three brothers from their father who, 72 years ago, started the family’s rise from his own toil on the Diamond Sugar Estate to engrave the family name indelibly in the annals of the local jewellery industry……