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Trail Masters Adventure Tours and Guyana Glory will run an overnight Independence cruise aboard the MV One Freedom on 25 May 2026, from Georgetown to Fort Island for Guyana's 60th Diamond Jubilee flag raising. It departs Stabroek at 16:00 and returns by 10:00 the next day.
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India repeats five statistics in every small-business release and none has a Caribbean equivalent in print. The Indian Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises convened the first BRICS SME Working Group on 24 April 2026. CARICOM's framework is signed; the figures inside it are not.
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Guyana's economy grew 43.6 per cent in 2024, which the IMF called the fastest growth on Earth, yet most Caribbean small businesses still cannot borrow. The Caribbean Development Bank's 2025 study found MSME loan rejection rates of 35 to 85 per cent across CARICOM.
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The UN's 2026 Democracy and Development Report puts Guyana 12th in the world for brain drain, even as the IMF projects 16.2 per cent growth in 2026 on top of 19.3 per cent last year. The question is whether it can build institutions to manage the wealth.
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Carlyne Stewart, Managing Director and Chief Experience Officer of Clarke's Productions Inc. and former Secretary of the Women's Chamber of Commerce and Industry Guyana, is behind the Beyond the Wheels 2.0 National Transportation and Safety Forum at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
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Khaimwatie Seenarine, a nursery teacher in West Bank Demerara, built an offline learning app herself. Guyana needs an army of teachers who think as she does if it wants a knowledge economy on top of its oil economy, and the pipeline to train them does not exist at scale.
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Caribbean small and medium enterprises generate roughly half of regional GDP and 45 per cent of CARICOM jobs, yet share in a US$1.2 trillion financing gap. US tariffs, new Afreximbank capital, the Guyana Development Bank launch and CARICOM liberalisation talks all land this quarter.
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Dr John Anderson is a Guyanese internal medicine physician and founder of The Centre for Healthcare Excellence Inc., a private practice in Georgetown. His career spans pharmacy, academic medicine and community leadership across Region 4, and he does not look like a man who changes lives.
Read More →St Kitts and Nevis will host the third Investment Gateway Summit from 17 to 20 June 2026, bringing together economic citizens, prospective applicants, authorised agents and real estate developers, as American citizenship by investment applications hit record highs in early 2026.
Read More →India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar signed eleven agreements across Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago between 2 and 9 May 2026, while Suriname received commissioned infrastructure and lines of credit. The tour ran to 10 May and shows a differentiated Caribbean strategy.
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The Buenos Aires Plan of Action approaches its fiftieth year and formal South-South cooperation still moves at the speed of communiqués. Caribbean women who refused to wait have begun building the institution that can deliver it. Whether it resources them is the open question.
Read More →Bank of Italy data found that a 10 per cent rise in card payments lifts GDP by 0.33 per cent. In Guyana, where 99.9 per cent of transactions are cash and the cost runs to 2.45 per cent of GDP, the same elasticity points to a larger prize and a larger risk.
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