How to convert last month’s visit to Guyana by a delegation of South Florida businessmen under the auspices of the Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) to trade and investment is an assignment that is likely to preoccupy delegation leader Wesley Kirton for some time yet.
Kirton says he believes that business links could be amongst the most productive ways through which Caribbean people in the diaspora can best contribute to the growth and development of their respective home countries. In the case of Guyana he believes that the prospects are considerable. The visit here by the South Florida business delegation in May was planned to coincide with the staging of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary event and though Kirton says that many of the engagements were of a preliminary nature he points to some developments that may amount to important breakthroughs.
One is the decision by Guyanese-born businesswoman Joy Agness not only to pursue a multi-million-dollar hotel investment at Linden but also to stage a major forum for event planners in Georgetown in October. Kirton hopes too that the longer-term prospects of a market in Florida for 200,000 pounds of pork weekly might galvanize a sluggish pig industry into action and, moreover, might cause both the
