Brazilians show great interest in Guyanese products
BRAZILIAN visitors to the Entrepreneurship Trade Fair, staged in Boa Vista last weekend, displayed a great deal of interest in Guyanese products showcased there. During the exposition, too, many visiting Guyanese businessmen made contact with their counterparts and settled arrangements for further interaction on trade and commerce between the two countries.
The exhibition was done from scores of booths manned by entrepreneurs from Brazil and Venezuela and the five-day activity was hosted in the border town by SEBRAE, the Brazilian Small Business and Micro Support Organisation.
Among other Guyanese present were Guyana’s Ambassador to Brazil, Mr. Harry Narine Nawbatt and a GO-Invest Team, led by its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Geoffrey Da Silva.
There, as well, were Guyana’s recently appointed General Consul in Boa Vista, Mrs. Leila King;  Executive Director of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Mr. Roubinder Rambarran; President of Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), Mr. Clinton Williams; representatives of the Chambers of Commerce of Upper and Central Corentyne, Linden and Rupununi and a group University of Guyana (UG) students.
Mr. Shawn Doris, a Manager of GO-Invest said the students were taken to encourage thinking to become employers rather than employees.
“The idea is to stimulate them to think like entrepreneurs and embrace entrepreneurship and business as a career,” he said.
The merchandise on display at the fair were products of Edward B. Beharry Group of Companies, Comfort Sleep, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Price Busters, Princess Hotel, National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) and Stabrook Food Industry Inc. of Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara.

AINLIM, another local company represented, did not mount any exhibits on that occasion, as its representative was more interested in looking for business in Brazil and was facilitated by GO-Invest and SEBRAE, in collaboration with the PSC, Doris said.

The local delegations returned home earlier this week but have in the plan another visit to the Brazilian city of Manaus, next month, Da Silva disclosed.