With the promised National Hospitality Academy still some distance away, University of Guyana Economics graduate Sheldon Kellman is seeking to carve a niche of his own in the hospitality sector ahead of what he anticipates will be a significant increase in the demand for trained service providers in the sector once visitor arrival numbers begin to grow.
Currently in its sixth year of existence, Clean Clear International, the D’Urban Street, Werk-en-Rust establishment set up by Kellman with an initial investment of around $400,000 was originally envisaged as a routine janitorial service designed to provide across-the-board cleaning services. In a competitive environment, however, contracts were coming in at a crawl and Kellman decided to make a tactical shift in his business focus.
His own research had discerned a gap in the service provision regime in the hospitality sector. In both the public and private
