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Georgetown, Guyana | June 2026
Clarke’s Productions Inc. announces Beyond The Wheels 2.0 — the National Transportation and Safety Forum set for October 6–7 at Arthur Chung Conference Centre, one month ahead of National Road Safety Month.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Clarke’s Productions Inc. has announced Beyond The Wheels 2.0, a two-day National Transportation and Safety Forum to be held on October 6 and 7, 2026 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre in Georgetown, Guyana. The forum arrives one month ahead of National Road Safety Month, positioning it as the most consequential national conversation on road safety this country will have in 2026.
Guyana’s road mortality rate stands at approximately 18 deaths per 100,000 people — nearly nine times that of Singapore and well above the Pan American Health Organization’s 2030 target of 6.73 per 100,000 for Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2025, close to 100,000 vehicles were imported into this country. The roads are getting busier. The culture governing them has not kept pace. As La Cariñea News reported in May 2026, Singapore engineered its road culture deliberately over four decades — and the Caribbean has not done that work.
Beyond The Wheels 2.0’s mission — to drive behavioural change and collective responsibility — reflects a frank acknowledgment that road safety is not primarily a road design problem. It is a people problem. And people problems require the kind of cross-sector, multi-stakeholder conversation that only a national forum can convene.
SOUNDBITE — Carlyne Stewart, Managing Director and Chief Experience Officer, Clarke’s Productions Inc.
The Forum & Its Speakers
Beyond The Wheels 2.0 brings together transportation engineers, policymakers, insurance professionals, fleet managers, public health practitioners, and civil society leaders — a configuration designed to produce commitments that outlast a conference.
The confirmed speaker lineup brings rare cross-sector depth to a single stage. Lacey Williams, Managing Director of CARITRANS (Caribbean Transportation Consultancy Services), brings twenty-five years of transportation engineering experience across Belize, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, with specialist training in road safety auditing through the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory. Dr. John Anderson of the National Road Safety Council adds public health and safety governance expertise to the programme.
Mr. Eric Kipps, Director of Jaric Environment Safety and Health Services, is one of the Caribbean’s leading occupational health and safety practitioners, with operations across Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the wider region. Rounding out the programme is former Ambassador Conrad Enill — Caribbean statesman, former Minister of Energy and Energy Industries of Trinidad and Tobago, former Minister in the Ministry of Finance, and most recently High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana — whose expertise in energy, finance, and diplomacy brings a regional policy dimension that few safety forums in the Caribbean have ever commanded.
Williams, speaking to La Caribeña News ahead of the forum, put the stakes plainly: “If I can educate you as to how you can play a part practically, then whoever attends there can go and tell somebody else on the outside, and then we can create a cultural change just by the drop of a little bit of information.” Read the full interview: Why Caribbean Road Safety Needs Local Data, Not Imported Assumptions.
The Woman Behind the Forum
The forum is produced by Clarke’s Productions Inc., led by Managing Director and Chief Experience Officer Carlyne Stewart. A strategic operator whose approach is to build the room fully before inviting the public in, Stewart has been quietly briefing corporate and government partners for months. La Caribeña News profiled her approach in May 2026 — and the public is now next.
Why October. Why Now.
By convening one month ahead of National Road Safety Month, Beyond The Wheels 2.0 is positioned not as a companion to existing awareness campaigns, but as the intellectual and strategic foundation beneath them. The commitments made in the room on October 6 and 7 are what National Road Safety Month then amplifies.
This is the second edition of the forum. The first established Clarke’s Productions Inc. as a credible convener across transportation, safety, and corporate Guyana. The 2026 edition is broader in scope, richer in its speaker programme, and built for action — not observation.
Guyana’s road safety crisis does not exist in a vacuum. With nearly 100,000 vehicles imported in 2025 alone and infrastructure still catching up to the country’s oil-era growth, the pressure on roads — and on road culture — has never been greater. Beyond The Wheels 2.0 is Guyana’s most serious answer to that pressure yet.
EVENT DETAILS
Related Coverage on La Caribeña News
• The Quiet Bet: Carlyne Stewart and Beyond the Wheels 2.0
• Why Caribbean Road Safety Needs Local Data, Not Imported Assumptions
• Singapore Engineered Its Drivers. Guyana Hasn’t. Here’s What That Costs Us.
• Go-Invest Urges Region 3 Locals to Invest First
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