The current trials of the fifteen year-old Hosororo Hill, Region One, Blue Flame Women’s Group is a typical example of the plight of many of the centres of economic activity in Guyana’s interior communities where a passion for entrepreneurship continues to be undermined by logistical blockages and official sloth in creating conditions more convivial to their growth.
Regarded for years as one of the more progressive economic ventures to emerge from the hinterland, Blue Flame’s survival now stands imperiled by the onslaught of COVID-19 which has ravaged an enterprise well-known for the mark that it has left on the country’s agro-processing sector.
This newspaper’s interview last weekend with Blue Flame’s chairperson, Christina James, left us in no doubt that the future of the 15-year-old farming and agro-processing entity, one of the most progressive organisations of its kind to emerge from the hinterland, probably hangs in the balance.
