Akailah Gordon is the sole Lindener among the batch of young female agro-processors, all graduates of the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), who the Stabroek Business interviewed recently. Like her colleagues, she is part of an emerging generation who have arrived at the junction of womanhood with a multitude of ambitions and are in the throes of making decisions that are likely to have a lasting impact on the rest of their lives.
You probably wouldn’t associate Akailah with the entrepreneurial side of agro-processing. She is a vivacious and impressively articulate young woman with an unmistakable interest in science and ambitions that include undertaking university-level studies in Food Safety and Microbiology.
The former St. Stanislaus College student leaves you wondering for a while but eventually ‘connects the dots’ that provide access to her real ambition. Her goal, it seems, is to infuse more ‘science’ into the production of food to address issues of both food safety and food variety.
