Reflections on the Guyana Shop
GMC Public Relations Officer Shevon Nedd and Guyana Shop manager Kevin Macklingham inside the shop
December 11, 2020
These days, the shelves filling the space at the corner of Robb & Camp streets that houses the Guyana Shop, administered by the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC), have taken on a less appealing image than had been the case up to a few months ago. Spaces once occupied by sauces, spices, wines and an assortment of tamarind balls and other delectable condiments are now less crowded. A few months earlier the manager of the Shop had told the Stabroek Business that its changed appearance had been a function of a mutual understanding between the GMC and the agro-processors that the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant decline in sales had given cause for pulling back on the stocking of the shelves. In the weeks ahead we were to learn from the owners of those brands that stocked the shelves that that indeed had been the case and