Hope Nester is IPED’s best micro entrepreneur

Hope at work in the Arcade

Hope Nester is what one might call a veteran vendor. For more than 25 years, she has been offering various types of goods and services – clothing, food, beverages, shoes, perfumes and, more recently, cellular phone ‘top-up’ services to customers.

Over time, she has established strong bonds with her clientele that have kept faith with her. No less strong is the bond that she has established with the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED).

Speaking with Stabroek Business last week she exuded the persona of a small business operator who had eventually convinced herself that she was ‘going somewhere.’

When the Institute of Private Enterprise Development (IPED) made its