Arlene Ross: Seizing opportunities from Port Kaituma business boom

Arlene Ross

When you meet Arlene Ross for the first time she does not strike you as being a hard-nosed entrepreneur, who weighs risks, crunches numbers and spends much of her time travelling hundreds of miles by air – sometimes as often as once a week – to acquire stock and explore new ventures.

That is certainly not the direction which she envisaged her life would take just over ten years ago, when, having completed training in nursing and midwifery and having been trained as a medic, she was assigned to Region One to assume responsibility for the running of the Port Kaituma Hospital while serving out her five-year contract with the Government of Guyana.

Port Kaituma is a long haul from Arlene’s hometown, New Amsterdam, and the thought of being posted to the interior is not one that