A University of the West Indies lecturer with whom the Stabroek Business spoke with last week whilst viewing an indigenous culinary and craft display on Main Street Avenue made the point that up until now Guyana had failed, “and signally so,” to properly embrace what he described as “valuable” indigenous skills and creativity to bear within the country’s entrepreneurial mainstream. He elaborated, making the point that the creative work that had been displayed and were being diligently marketed for several days as part of the Heritage Month commemoration activities, had surely now reached a point in terms of their quality where they ought to be inducted into the country’s entrepreneurial mainstream, as is the case in other countries in the hemisphere. He went on to make the point that it was high time that Guyana take ‘a leaf from the books’ of those other South American nations that had long brought their clothing, their craft and their culinary offerings to the fore, making the point that such a gesture would go some way towards compensating for what he described as the “historic exclusion of our Amerindians from the socio cultural mainstream.”
