La Caribeña News Newsroom | Georgetown, Guyana | 28 June 2026
IN BRIEF Hummingbird Products, a Guyanese agro-processor of nearly five years, showed its cassareep, molasses, pepper sauce and teas at the International Building Expo 2026 in Providence in June. Owner Deoranie Camacho sources from Region 9 women’s groups and small farmers. |
At a National Stadium crowded for the country’s biggest housing showcase, a small table of bottles made a quieter point about where Guyana’s economy is heading. Hummingbird Products, an agro-processing business out of Georgetown, set up among the exhibitors at the International Building Expo 2026 to put its sauces and teas in front of a national audience.
The brand has traded for close to five years. Its owner and proprietor, Deoranie Camacho, builds the range around traditional Guyanese staples: cassareep, molasses, pepper sauce, and a line of teas that runs from mint to lemongrass. The products are made locally, she says, and the raw material is organically harvested.
The sourcing is the story. Camacho buys from small farmers and women’s groups around the country, then writes those origins into the labels. The cassareep line, “Rupununi’s Finest,” comes from women’s groups in Region 9. The molasses is drawn from a Demerara sugar estate. The pepper sauce is named for the river community where its peppers are grown.
Camacho is not only chasing walk-in trade. A member of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), she is also preparing the brand for UnCapped, the association’s agro-processing showcase later in the year. The Expo and UnCapped are two windows onto the same pitch: locally made products with a traceable, rural Guyanese origin.
What does Hummingbird Products make?
Hummingbird Products makes traditional Guyanese condiments and beverages. The core range covers cassareep, molasses and pepper sauce, with a tea line built on herbs such as mint and lemongrass. Camacho describes the catalogue as “authentic traditional products,” all locally manufactured.
For readers outside the region, cassareep is the anchor. It is a thick, dark syrup boiled down from cassava and seasoned, and it gives Guyana’s pepperpot its colour and depth. Molasses, a by-product of sugar refining, carries its own following for baking and cooking. Pepper sauce is the everyday Guyanese hot sauce, usually built on fiery local peppers. The current Hummingbird range includes:
• Cassareep (“Rupununi’s Finest”), sourced from Region 9 women’s groups• Molasses (“Demerara’s Finest”), from a Demerara sugar estate• Pepper sauce, named for the river where the peppers are grown• Teas, including mint and lemongrass
Where do Hummingbird’s ingredients come from?
They come from rural producers, and Camacho is specific about it. The cassareep is sourced from women’s groups in Region 9, Guyana’s Rupununi, a savannah region far from the coastal manufacturing belt. The molasses comes from a Demerara estate. The peppers come from farmers along the river that lends the pepper sauce its name.
That model does two things at once. It shortens the distance between a smallholder in the interior and a supermarket shelf in town, and it gives each product a traceable origin that a shopper can read on the bottle. For a small brand competing against established names, a clear provenance is a selling point, not a footnote.
How does the business support small farmers and women’s groups?
By buying from named groups and crediting them on the packaging. When the cassareep label points to women’s groups in Region 9, the sale travels back to those producers. Camacho frames the brand around “supporting small farmers, women groups across Guyana,” and the product names carry that message to the customer.
This matters beyond one business. Women-led and rural enterprises often struggle to reach buyers concentrated on the coast. A processor that aggregates their output, packages it to standard and places it in retail gives those producers a route to market they would find hard to build alone.
Where can shoppers buy Hummingbird Products?
The range is stocked at Survival Supermarket, and Camacho says it will reach The Guyana Shop soon. The Guyana Shop, run by the Guyana Marketing Corporation, is a retail outlet dedicated to locally made and agro-processed goods, so placement there puts Hummingbird beside other homegrown brands shoppers already associate with local produce.
How does GMSA membership connect Hummingbird to UnCapped?
Camacho has been a member of the GMSA for almost four years, and that membership is steering her next move. The event she is preparing for is UnCapped, the GMSA showcase she expects to return in August. She is looking forward to the turnout and, in her words, the “great exposure.”
UnCapped is GMSA’s annual exhibition, marketplace and food festival for the country’s agro-processors. According to GMSA, the event was launched about a decade ago and runs on a model where exhibitors pay nothing to take part, and recent stagings have brought more than 100 local entrepreneurs to the Guyana National Stadium. GMSA has also signalled wider ambitions, speaking publicly about taking an UnCapped showcase to the United States and establishing a business incubator to help local manufacturers scale.
Why would a sauce maker exhibit at a building expo?
Foot traffic. The International Building Expo is Guyana’s largest housing and construction event, and it draws very large crowds, with a recent staging estimated at around 100,000 visitors. The 2026 edition ran from 25 to 28 June at the Guyana National Stadium in Providence, organised by the Central Housing and Planning Authority under the Ministry of Housing and Water, and themed around the country’s 60th year of independence.
A construction expo is not an obvious home for cassareep and tea. But for a small consumer brand, the calculation is simple. Where the crowds go, the brand follows. A booth among the home-builders and mortgage desks puts Hummingbird in front of thousands of shoppers it would not otherwise meet, which is the same logic that takes the brand to UnCapped later in the year.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Hummingbird Products?
Deoranie Camacho is the owner and proprietor. She has run the agro-processing brand for close to five years and has been a member of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association for almost four.
What is cassareep?
Cassareep is a thick, dark, seasoned syrup boiled down from cassava. It is the essential ingredient in Guyanese pepperpot, giving the stew its deep colour and flavour, and it is also used in other stews and bakes.
Where are Hummingbird’s ingredients sourced?
From rural producers. The cassareep comes from women’s groups in Region 9, the molasses from a Demerara sugar estate, and the peppers from farmers along the river that gives the pepper sauce its name.
Where can I buy Hummingbird Products?
The range is available at Survival Supermarket. The brand says it will also be stocked at The Guyana Shop, the Guyana Marketing Corporation outlet for locally made goods.
What is GMSA’s UnCapped?
UnCapped is the GMSA’s annual exhibition, marketplace and food festival for Guyana’s agro-processors. Exhibitors take part free of charge, and recent editions have featured more than 100 local businesses at the Guyana National Stadium.
Disclosure: La Caribeña News founder and managing director Theon Alleyne serves as a director of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and chairs its Services Sub-Sector. GMSA organises UnCapped, referenced in this article. He is also Vice President and Public Relations Officer of the Essequibo Islands–West Demerara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (R3CCI). Per La Caribeña News Newsroom Article Guidelines v1.1, Section 12.