Both Guyana and Suriname are expected to be represented at the 2024 Barbados three-day Agro Processing event scheduled to be staged from February 23rd to 25th according to a report in the Wednesday February 7th issue of Barbados Today. While this newspaper has seen no public announcement of Guyana’s participation in the event up to this time, the Barbados Today is reporting that the Guyana contingent will be putting on “another showcase” this year. This newspaper’s efforts to secure a briefing from the Guyana Office for Investment (GOINVEST) on Guyana’s participation in the event have borne no fruit so far since on the three separate occasions that we telephoned the office we were notified that the officers assigned to manage the process were unavailable. However, one local Agro processor notified this newspaper that she would be traveling to Barbados and that arrangements for the movement of participants’ products to Barbados were already underway though she was concerned that financing airline tickets could be “a problem for some people.”
