A Venezuelan family of five needed US$755.36 to eat in August, up 12.5 per cent in bolívares and 3.8 per cent in dollars. Georgetown food prices fell 0.5 per cent and were 4.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.
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President Ali said selected Guyana Development Bank borrowers will be publicly named before financing, with one to two weeks for objections. Public lenders abroad that name borrowers do so after payment; naming before payment comes from welfare programmes.
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Chile, Argentina and Brazil are trying to refine lithium at home, and Brazil passed a critical-minerals policy this month. Guyana's airborne survey is looking for lithium and rare earths, and it has no dedicated critical-minerals law on the public record.
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The IMF said in July that import-heavy private investment kept Guyana's FX market tight, judged the stabilized regime appropriate and advised deeper markets. The government's nine measures work on documentation and misuse.
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Guyana's commercial banks have told President Irfaan Ali that unmet requests for foreign currency stand at just over US$200 million, part carried forward from earlier months. Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally is helping analyse the demand.
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Importers, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and a US government trade guide reported delays in getting US dollars through 2024 and 2025. In September 2026 the commercial banks put unfilled requests at just over US$200 million.
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Guyana turned the sod on a $1.03 billion New Amsterdam Market rebuild. The record holds 18 years of unmet appeals, and no public demand for a new market.
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The Guyana Development Bank opens on 5 October with US$100 million and application desks inside commercial banks. Its loans are in Guyana dollars, so an importer like Sankofa Global, which buys shea and cocoa butter from Ghana, must still buy US dollars to pay its supplier.
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Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat says gas at Wales can support two power plants totalling 600 megawatts, a propane plant and a data centre. The Gas-to-Energy project under construction is 300 MW, and its first turbine, 57 MW, is due around 4 December.
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Guyana's Fast Pay system, announced on 17 May 2026, and a seat in the CARICOM Payment and Settlement System (CAPSS) could cut charges like the 4 to 6% the IMF found in the Eastern Caribbean, helping firms trade outside oil.
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The central banks of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and The Bahamas met a PAPSS team in Port of Spain on CAPSS, CARICOM's planned system for instant payments between member states in local currencies.
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Creditinfo Group completed its purchase of EveryData Group on 6 August 2026, taking over the licensed credit bureaus of Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. Guyana's bureau was licensed under the Creditinfo name in 2013.
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