The Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has em­barked on a dual-coun­try Trade Mis­sion to Guyana and Suri­name, mark­ing one of its most am­bi­tious re­gion­al ini­tia­tives to date. Run­ning from June 8–14, the mis­sion un­der­scores TTMA’s com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing re­gion­al trade, in­vest­ment, and col­lab­o­ra­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers and ser­vice providers.

Led by TTMA Pres­i­dent Emil Ramkissoon, the del­e­ga­tion in­cludes 38 com­pa­nies and 58 par­tic­i­pants, mak­ing it one of the largest trade mis­sions ever or­ga­nized by the As­so­ci­a­tion. The pro­gram fea­tures busi­ness-to-busi­ness meet­ings, sem­i­nars, net­work­ing events, and ex­plorato­ry dis­cus­sions aimed at fos­ter­ing new com­mer­cial part­ner­ships and gath­er­ing mar­ket in­tel­li­gence.

Ramkissoon em­pha­sized the strate­gic im­por­tance of the ini­tia­tive, not­ing that Guyana and Suri­name have be­come in­creas­ing­ly at­trac­tive mar­kets for TTMA mem­bers. “Over the past sev­er­al years, both Guyana and Suri­name have emerged as key mar­kets of in­ter­est for TTMA mem­bers seek­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for mar­ket en­try, ex­pan­sion of ex­ist­ing client re­la­tion­ships, in­vest­ment in high-growth sec­tors, and the sourc­ing of prod­ucts and ser­vices,” he said. He added that the mis­sion was care­ful­ly de­signed to pro­vide del­e­gates with valu­able in­sights in­to the evolv­ing eco­nom­ic land­scapes of both coun­tries.