Getting the small business show on the road

Now more than ever before, small-scale farming and agro processing ventures are among the more prevalent pursuits in low-income communities and among poor families seeking to subsidise their incomes. The same would appear to be happening in interior communities though those communities remain disadvantaged by a lack of support associated with key considerations like moving their agricultural produce and agro-produced goods to coastal markets.

We have discussed this and other constraints from time to time and what remains to be said is that for as long as no decisive moves are made to remedy them the growth of commercial enterprise in interior communities will remain a pipe dream and sections of our Amerindian population will remain in a condition of poverty.

As an aside it is probably worth the while to point out that the evolution of business in Guyana is pointing unerringly at a rich/poor divide between multi-million-dollar investments in the