Lack of financing and an effective local lobby as well as the high cost of taking advantage of potentially lucrative overseas markets continue to inhibit the local craft industry both as a source of secure employment for Guyanese and as a significant money-earner for the economy, according to Managing Director of Amazon Authentics, Irene Bacchus-Holder.
Speaking with Stabroek Business earlier this week, Bacchus-Holder, who has recently undertaken marketing-related visits to several countries in Europe said the underexposure of Guyanese art and craft to the international market had less to do with quality and more to do with the fact the effective international marketing was a “high-cost” venture which,
