GuyExpo has set itself apart as the country’s biggest and best example of public/private sector collaboration on commerce and trade promotion and “by far the best forum for the initial marketing of local small enterprises looking to make an entry into the wider market. In those respects and in others it has been a landmark event in trade, commerce and product and service promotion for Guyana,” event Co-Chairman Derrick Cummings told Stabroek Business.
In an extended interview earlier this week Cummings said this year saw the event attract more than 250 local and foreign participants who set up more than 400 booths. That, he said, was an indication of GuyExpo’s “significance for the popularisation of local goods and services.” Cummings also said he believed that by attracting regional businesses to the event and facilitating trade promotion and joint venture initiatives between local and regional firms, GuyExpo was contributing to the realisation of the objectives of the Caricom Single Market.
“Of course the planning and execution of GuyExpo does not always go smoothly. Managing an event of that nature has its challenges. Satisfying the requirements of every exhibitor and ensuring effective execution are major challenges but I think we usually cope well,” Cummings told this newspaper.
Asked about complaints that the private sector has been kept on the periphery of the planning of GuyExpo,
