News and analysis for Caribbean MSMEs — financing, market access, trade policy, and growth strategies for micro, small, and medium enterprises across the region.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1890, 75 years before the Bank of Guyana opened. Six of its leaders have asked the Bank to change one credit rule since 2014. The rule still says a business's own machinery is not good collateral.
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The Guyana Development Bank publishes a sector breakdown of who applies, and agriculture is the largest share. It publishes no count of loans approved, none disbursed, and no split of approvals by sector. One month after it opened on 5 October 2026, applicants posting publicly report no reply.
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Michael Munroe, Director of Guyana's Local Content Secretariat, told a suppliers' forum in Georgetown on 4 November that the Secretariat intends to ask the oil companies what work might be set aside for small and women-owned businesses. The Act reserves 40 services and names neither.
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La Caribena News has published five hundred articles about business. In this opinion piece its founder argues that Guyana's organised private sector can speak publicly inside forty-eight hours when it chooses to, and asks what must hold before that voice is available to its own members.
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The National Computer Incident Response Team of The Bahamas issued an Akira ransomware alert on 22 October 2026, naming no confirmed attack at home. The FBI and three other agencies put the group's proceeds at US$244.17 million, and record its victims in North America, Europe and Australia. The Cari
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About 100 small businesses exhibit at the Railway Courtyard in Georgetown on 24 and 25 October 2026, closing the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry's fifth National Small Business Week. One exhibitor is a free virtual-storefront platform taking payment through MMG.
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The Guyana Development Bank sets out four steps between applying and being paid. Apply online, a GDB credit officer reviews, the applicant accepts a Letter of Offer signed online, and the loan is paid into a bank account. The Letter of Offer sets the amount, term and instalment.
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The Guyana Development Bank lists what an applicant must have before starting. Both loans need one valid identity document and a phone number. The SME Loan adds business registration and a TIN, business details, market and financial information, and how the funds will be used.
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The Guyana Development Bank's website offers two products under a section headed "Two Loans. Similar Conditions." A Quick Loan of up to G$300,000 for market vendors, salons and barbershops, and an SME Loan of up to G$3,000,000. Both are zero interest.
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Budget 2026 provided the Guyana Development Bank with G$20 billion, the first tranche of a G$40 billion authorised share capital. The Bank lends up to G$3 million per borrower at zero interest and without collateral. The first tranche funds about 6,666 loans at the maximum size.
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Own-account workers rose to 19.2 per cent of Guyana's employed in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 16.7 per cent, and 43.2 per cent of workers were informal. A World Bank study argues the region's informal self-employed often choose the work.
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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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