Elizabeth Bunbury hopes that Guyana’s hosting of the March 31 to April 2 Conference of the Caribbean Association of Home Economists (CAHE) will not just raise the profile of Home Economics, but help erect a bridge between the discipline as subject on the curriculum and a vehicle for employment creation and broadening the base of the country’s economy, particularly its manufacturing sector.
She has little time to discuss the stigmatization of the discipline of Home Economics as the favoured pursuit of intellectual slouches. It is, she says, what it is, and the challenge that confronts the sector is to work to repair its own image.
She believes that the Guyana Association of Home Economists (GAHE) is the ideal vehicle with which to
