With the niche in the souvenir sector arising out of Guyana’s Fiftieth Independence Anniversary celebrations providing a potentially sustainable market for the local art and craft industry, local artist Irene Bacchus-Holder has told Stabroek Business that she believes the anticipated surfeit in jubilee souvenirs and the market that it can create in the Guyanese diaspora can be “a new beginning” for an industry which, up until now, is still to realize its potential.
Bacchus-Holder said that while, like many other local artists and craftspeople she has produced a range of souvenir items for the market during the Jubilee celebrations period she was hoping that the outcome of the spike in souvenir production would be much more than a temporary spike in sales.
