This document summarizes a partnership project between organizations in Nova Scotia, Canada and Guyana, South America. The objectives were to deliver marketing and food safety workshops to 15 agro-food processors in Guyana, develop business profiles and analyses, and provide food safety training. The project involved site visits to food businesses, workshops on marketing, packaging, labeling, and food safety. Three Guyanese partners were identified to provide continuity going forward. The project aimed to help small food businesses in Guyana improve and expand their operations.

1. From Nova Scotia, Canada
to Georgetown, Guyana
NOVA SCOTIA
GUYANA
CESO/EMPRETEC PARTNERSHIP

2. Assignment Objectives
- deliver 6 Marketing Workshops to15 small
and medium scale agro-food processors.
- develop business profiles and conduct
SWOT analysis of processing activities by
the 15 workshop participants.
- deliver Food Safe Program to 30 participants
including workshop participants and other
interested parties.

3. Canadian High Commission,
Georgetown, Guyana

4. The Flag, the Map, the Country
Guyana

14. Project Continuity Going
Forward
• YWCA Community Development
Specialist (Glynis-Alonzo Beaton)
• Food Technologist (Ronald Noble)
• Environmental & International
Development Specialist (Rene Edwards)

15. Glynis Beaton Ronald Noble

16. Rene Edwards
“these are
three persons
who will lend
the necessary
continuity going
forward”

17. Field Visits To Agro-Processors
• Business Profiles
• SWOT Analyses
• 15 Site Visits to Processing Sites in
Georgetown, West Coast Demarara,
Berbice, Linden and the Pomeroon.

18. Road in to Major’s Food Manufacturing
Enterprise, East Coast, Demarara

19. Allan
Major

20. Major’s Foods/East Coast
Demarara

21. Recycled Bottles at Major’s

22. Traditional
Ways of
Food
Processing
“Wood-fired
carambola
(star-fruit)
processing for
use in baking
traditional
black/ fruit

23. Hot Pepper Sauce

24. Drying Mango For Making Achar

25. Export
Markets
for Cane
Sugar
Compete
With Local
Uses (e.g.
Food
Processing)

26. Bottling Cassareep

27. A Wide Range of Products
For Local & Caribbean Mkts.

28. Leaving Major’s

29. at Farina Issardeen’s

33. Farina’s Product is Carambola with
Starfruit as the Basic Ingredient

35. Business Cards for Identity

36. Supreme Enterprises,
Georgetown

37. Supreme Enterprises
Sunrose Brand/Corlette Family

39. Rhonda, Kathleen and Samantha Corlette

40. Business Visits to the Pomeroon

41. Water Control Structures
Developed by the Dutch

44. On the Road to Tapakuma

45. Washouts

46. Amerindian Country

48. Roy Explains Cassava Processing Equipment

49. Cassava Biscuits Seem to be an
Interesting Product!

52. Pasteurized
Diced Organic
Pineapple in
glass bottles
for European
Export Market

56. Quality
Control
Lab

57. Jars For Incubator Test

61. Lunch at Lake Mainstay Resort

65. Pomeroon Women’s Agro-
Processors’ Association

72. Pomeroon River

73. No Roads Into the Interior

74. Transport of People

75. Transport of Goods

76. Return to Georgetown

78. Demerara River

82. On the Road to Linden

84. Horses Not Uncommon Sight On the

85. Bauxite Mine at Linden

86. Linden

87. Chanzar’s Linden

88. Joan Gentle
Chanzars
Enterprise,
Linden
Guyana

93. Vivienne Munroe,Nu-Tec Enterprises

96. Owen deSouza, Farmer & Farm Marketer

99. Project Launch

100. Workshops
Marketing Strategies
Packaging
Labelling
Brand & Logo Design
Special Promotions
Food Safe Seminar

101. Marketing Strategies and Planning

102. Roy does
group report
on Packaging

103. Cassava Biscuit Packaging ‘Before’

104. Cassava Biscuit Packaging ‘After’

105. Farina Presents Group Report On Labelling

106. Brand & Logo Design Working Groups

109. How Safe Is The Pork In This Heat?
What is the shelf life?

110. Food Safe Program

111. Special
Presentations
Workshop

117. 1 A.M. Nite Before
Final Wrap-Up

118. An Indispensable Tool/Now With EMPRETEC

119. Closing Ceremony/Project Wrap-up

121. Brett Maitland, Acting
Consul General,
Canadian High
Commission & Head of
CIDA Aid Addresses
Wrap-up Session

122. Marketing and Food Safe Workshop
Participants, February 25, 2009

131. Sunset On the Demerara