Berlinda Duncan-Persaud is the Chief Executive Officer of Cheereemee Marketing Agency and Cacique Designs and a craftswoman of considerable talent. There is a distinctive refinement in the jewellery she creates. The piece embody, simultaneously, the indigenous material used in the production of Amerindian craft and the refinement that characterizes conventional jewellery.
Refusing as she does to allow her work to be characterized by what she says are the compromises that attend the treatment of traditional Amerindian craft, Duncan-Persaud markets her work in Guyana and with the help of a distributor, elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Apart from growing a market for her own creations, a task which she concedes is
