This weekend, Gordon Lashley and his wife Carol are taking their cane juice mill and their entrepreneurial optimism to the Providence Stadium where they hope that the first ever staging of the Guyana Festival might provide some measure of breakthrough for a beverage which, as much as any other, can be considered ‘local drink’.
The Lashleys are banking on the marketing thrust of the organisers of the event who have been presenting it to the public as a ‘must go’ event for locals and visitors to Guyana alike.
What the Lashleys are also hoping is that the Festival, which opens later today will help to popularize his modest fifteen-year-old cane juice enterprise.
Cane juice is no stranger to the local beverage market. The problem is that it has never been
