His Excellency David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana is saddened at the death of Mrs. Allison Butters-Grant, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of Global Seafoods Distributors.

In a statement the President said Mrs. Butters- Grant was greatly admired and respected as a female entrepreneur and trailblazer. He noted last year, he toured her company and noted that the operations were, “entirely in keeping with Government’s food security policy”.

His Excellency extends heartfelt sympathy to her husband, children and other relatives.

Butters-Grant died of cancer in the US on Sunday night.

Butter-Grant had migrated to the US but returned to Guyana to establish Global Seafood Distributors, a processing and packaging facility which supplies seafood products locally, to the Caribbean and the US.

The company, which is now well established, does value-added processing of grey snapper, banga mary, trout and other wild-catch fish, producing products such as seasoned fish, fish fillet, nuggets, steak, headless and head-on fish.

Guyana Gold Fields, the Guyana Defence Force and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation are among its local buyers.

The company also exports fish to the US, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica and is famous for its boneless and skinless saltfish.

In March 2018, President David Granger had toured the West Ruimveldt facility and said that the company’s operations were “entirely in keeping with government’s food security policy”.