Joy Agness exudes an ill-concealed enthusiasm about the prospects of putting both her business skills and her creative talents to work in the service of her country. Her investment aspirations centre around significantly raising standards in the country’s services sector in order to better prepare the country to offer improved hospitality both to Guyanese residing at home as well as to visitors.
The Destination Wedding Specialist, Wedding Planner and Event Designer, who, along with large numbers of other Guyanese left their adopted homes in Europe, North America and elsewhere to celebrate the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary, disclosed to Stabroek Business in an interview shortly before returning to Florida that she will return to Guyana in October to follow up a planned multi-million-dollar investment in the tourism and leisure industry and to execute what she hopes will be a standards-raising initiative in the hospitality sector that will target a range of workers in the various sub-sectors.
And in her capacity as a Destination Wedding Specialist, Agness is seeking to deepen engagements that she has already had with Second Vice President and Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and Tourism Minister Kathy Hughes regarding amendment to
