Carol Fraser: Florida Expo 2014 and the future of the local creative industry

Caribbean Creations on display in Florida

Fashion designer Carol Fraser has returned home from the recently concluded Guyana Trade, Tourism and Investment Expo 2014, in the United States chastened by the experience and altogether persuaded that marketing Guyana and what it has to offer to the outside world remains a work in progress.

She deflected questions as to who might be to blame for what some of the 40-odd participants said were glitches that occurred in Florida that left some of them brooding and which prompted Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) Chief Executive Officer Keith Burrowes to come to the defence of the organization