As early as Saturday evening, long before the scheduled three-night Uncapped event at the National Exhibition Site, Sophia, was over, officials of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) were announcing that four more such events, at Providence, Port Mourant, and two other venues including one in Region Three, would be held in 2018. It was a sign that the modest turnout of visitors to the event notwithstanding, the organisers, the Ministry of Business and the GMSA, were prepared to stand behind the particular model in their pursuit of the creation of an expanded market for the range of agro-processed produced available in Guyana.
On Saturday evening both GMSA President Shyam Nokta and Event Coordinator Ramsay Ali were making the point that those who were inclined to measure the success of Uncapped by the number of attendees at the event on the first two evenings, compared with the customary GuyExpo crowds had missed the point that had earlier been made by the organisers that Uncapped was not intended to be a clone of GuyExpo. Its focus, they had said, would be on staging an event that would help raise public awareness of the range of products being produced by the country’s agro-processing sector whilst bringing agro processors – be they wholesalers or retailers and agro processors together in an effort to create an expanded market.
