With just under a month remaining before the staging of the October 19-20 Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo (FITCE) it appears that barring an eleventh hour change in circumstances, the chances of a full-strength group of Guyanese small businesses participating in the event are slim. A meeting last week between the Government of Guyana and an official of the Florida-based Guyanese-American Chamber of Commerce (GACC), which had been seen as a last-minute window for a change of heart on the part of the government after it turned down a request for a state subsidy to meet the costs of local participation in the event, reportedly ended with nothing changed.
