Guyana says it will open the World Trade Cen­tre George­town, Guyana (WTCG) in Oc­to­ber this year.

It made the an­nounce­ment at the World Trade Cen­ter As­so­ci­a­tion’s 55th an­nu­al Gen­er­al As­sem­bly and Glob­al Busi­ness Fo­rum that end­ed in Mar­seille, France last week.

A state­ment is­sued here by the WTCG said that its ex­ec­u­tive chair­man, Ko­mal Samaro, had is­sued an in­vi­ta­tion let­ter to the del­e­gates invit­ing them to “the for­mal open­ing of the World Trade Cen­tre George­town (Guyana) on Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 21st, 2025.”

The state­ment said that the open­ing has been timed to pre­cede the an­nu­al WT­CA Mem­bers Fo­rum in New York City which is sched­uled to open on Oc­to­ber 28.

“This way, del­e­gates at­tend­ing the WT­CA meet­ing from across the globe and who have ex­pressed an in­ter­est in com­ing to Guyana could find it con­ve­nient to so do,” said WTCG ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Wes­ley Kir­ton.

“The of­fi­cial open­ing of our build­ing a… in the cap­i­tal city George­town will take place as Guyana has emerged as one of the fastest-grow­ing economies glob­al­ly, dri­ven by its bur­geon­ing en­er­gy sec­tor, in­fra­struc­ture de­vel­op­ment, and a ro­bust in­vest­ment cli­mate. As a re­sult, this dy­nam­ic en­vi­ron­ment of­fers sub­stan­tial op­por­tu­ni­ties for trade -both im­ports in­to and ex­ports from the coun­try,”  Samaro said in his let­ter of in­vi­ta­tion.

“The open­ing of the World Trade Cen­tre George­town sig­ni­fies not on­ly Guyana’s but the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM’s) com­mit­ment to fos­ter­ing in­ter­na­tion­al busi­ness re­la­tions as well as its de­sire to serve as a key play­er in glob­al com­merce,” the let­ter adds.

Guyana said that par­tic­i­pa­tion in the open­ing ac­tiv­i­ties will pro­vide an ex­cel­lent plat­form to ex­plore the myr­i­ad op­por­tu­ni­ties in ar­eas such as agri­cul­ture and agribusi­ness, min­ing, tourism, man­u­fac­tur­ing, en­er­gy and more which Guyana and the CARI­COM re­gion now of­fer.

It said that the WTC George­town is the first, and cur­rent­ly the on­ly WTC in the CARI­COM re­gion and that the for­mal open­ing and re­lat­ed busi­ness pro­gramme over two days will fea­ture dis­tin­guished speak­ers in­clud­ing gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness lead­ers, and in­ter­na­tion­al trade ex­perts.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, Apr 14, CMC

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