Stabroek Business investigates the crisis of cheap and inferior school shoes imported into Guyana bringing with them misery and higher costs for parents who can ill-afford the additional financial strain of paying more for less
If you visit most of the small businesses around the city that restore and repair worn out and damaged shoes you are likely to see large quantities of new footwear, some still in the boxes in which they were bought; and if you wonder about the phenomenon of new shoes in a repair shop you would have every right to do so. The problem is that not all of the shoes that are imported into Guyana are worth the money paid for them.
It is a sore point particularly with working-class parents, who now complain ceaselessly about the brevity of the life span of the shoes that they buy for their school-aged children. Perusal of many of the shoe outlets, whether these are roadside vending operations or established business premises, indicate that school shoes can be bought at
