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An order gazetted on 3 November 2018 moved the job of maintaining and operating the Berbice bridge to the Government, from 5 November 2018 until a Minister gave notice that the danger had passed. No such notice appears in the official record.
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A 2008 order signed by the Minister gave the Berbice bridge company 21 years from 12 June 2006. The bridge was due to become Guyana's on 12 June 2027, free of cost. The government paid G$400 million for the company's shares on 16 September 2026, 269 days early.
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The National Insurance Scheme's 2023 annual report records a fund of G$43.296 billion at the start of the year and G$38.532 billion at the end. Income beat expenditure by G$2.684 billion. A comprehensive loss of G$7.448 billion took the fund down anyway.
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The National Insurance Scheme's 2023 annual report shows Berbice Bridge Company Inc paper in three instruments. The preference shares matured on 25 August 2026 and the subordinated loan stock falls due no later than five months after 31 July 2026. It is the newest report the Scheme has published.
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Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources approved five-year local content plans on 19 October 2022 carrying an amendment that Guyanese suppliers are paid within 30 to 45 days of a correct invoice. On 4 November 2026 the Local Content Secretariat asked operators to pay sooner.
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About US$850 million of Paraguayan public money sat in ueno bank when it was dissolved on 2 November 2026. Itaipú filed a criminal complaint on 7 November, the pension fund is the largest single holder, and the Senate removed President Santiago Peña four days after the bank was dissolved.
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The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana launched Explore Guyana 2027 at World Travel Market in London on 3 to 5 November 2026, with an arapaima on the cover and a QR code on a key ring. Five Guyanese operators stood with it, and the best October on record landed mid-fair.
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The Dominican Republic's central bank said on 4 November that its share of spot dollar trading has fallen from 93.06 per cent in 2019 to about a tenth. It publishes the wholesale rate twice a day. Trinidad runs a screened window, and Guyana publishes no equivalent share.
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The Bank of Jamaica sold three-month Treasury bills on 4 November at an average yield of 6.43 per cent. The same instrument pays a Guyanese bank 1.10. Parking clears a Guyanese bank 0.29 points over what it pays savers, and a Jamaican bank 4.33.
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Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited's audited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2026 show 62.8 per cent of the year's new deposits going out again as loans. A year earlier the bank added G$1.57 of government paper for every dollar it lent. EY signed on 27 October.
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The Bank of Guyana publishes what banks earn. Lending pays them about seven times what a short-term government bill pays. Every one of the country's six commercial banks also holds money outside Guyana, where it pays about four times the home rate.
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Bank of Baroda (Guyana) Inc.'s audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 show new holdings of Government of Guyana Treasury bills running at 2.83 times new lending. Agriculture fell 19.9 per cent to 1.1 per cent of the loan book. Mortgages are 57.9 per cent of it.
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