Cooperative sector as an economic option very much on government’s agenda

The audience at the Umana Yana for the launch of the International Year of Co-operatives including several school children.

More than a quarter of a century after having seemingly been written off as a failed experiment, the vehicle of the cooperative as an economic option for changing lives, maximizing production, increasing employment levels and contributing meaningfully to the growth of the Guyana economy is in the process of being restored to the national agenda.

In the wake of the official pronouncements made at the January 29 forum held at the Umana Yana to mark the launch of the United Nations-designated International Year of Cooperatives,