New GMSA Head wants to take ‘UncappeD’ expo overseas

UncappeD Marketplace is an exposition organised by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) with the aim of promoting products and services offered by some of Guyana’s small agro-processors.

With the event successfully marketing locally-made products over the past few years, the new GMSA President Ramsay Ali told the News Room on Friday that the association will this year attempt to host UncappeD in countries where there is a sizable Guyanese diaspora.

This, he believes, will help Guyanese-made products find new markets and ultimately, boost local production.

“… we want to get more of the UncappeD events out of Guyana,” Ali said.

Though the association has successfully participated in regional trade expos, such as the Barbados agrofest, it now wants to organise its own events abroad instead of “piggybacking”.

Already, the GMSA is eyeing trade expos in Antigua and Barbuda and the eastern seaboard of the United States of America (USA).

Aside from hosting UncappeD events abroad, Ali said the GMSA will continue to engage foreign private sectors under his leadership.

Already, the body has engaged a visiting private sector delegation from India and will participate in a major business roundtable discussion with the visiting Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Saturday.