Young entrepreneurs to be honoured

Under the theme “Building Bridges, Passing Batons”, Brand YOUth will on Thursday honour 40 young entrepreneurs at its inaugural Forty Under-40 Entrepreneurial Awards at the National Cultural Centre.
The two-hour event gets started at 18:00h. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon; Minister of Public Telecommunications, Cathy Hughes; Minister of Public Affairs, Dawn Hastings-Williams; Opposition Member of Parliament Gail Teixeira, and Canadian High Commissioner Lilian Chatterjee will be among those in attendance.
Brand YOUth, in a release, explained that it was a movement rooted in excellence, unity, community, and self-empowerment which grew out of Conversations with Selwyn (CWS). CWS is a New York-based webTV broadcast that was created by author, broadcaster, motivator and mentor Selwyn Collins in 2012. In 2015, he created a special platform and invited young people to appear on the programme every Sunday afternoon to share their stories. In 2016, a five-part series, Guyanese Youth in Business, and in late 2017, a seven-part series, Guyanese Youth in Review, had been produced. It is from those series that Brand YOUth evolved out of a vision to see an end to poverty in Guyana, while eliminating hunger, realising gender equality, and seeing Guyana rise to its full potential to become the bread-basket and ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Region. Most of those being honoured have appeared on the CWS platform.
There will also be a signing ceremony to honour the memory of the late Guyanese entrepreneur Allison Butters Grant on Saturday, April 27, 2019, at the University of Guyana, from 10:00h to 11:30h.