{"id":30558,"date":"2026-06-23T19:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30558"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:41:28","slug":"guyana-to-welcome-over-four-international-delegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-to-welcome-over-four-international-delegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana to welcome over four international delegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-scouting non-oil investment opportunities <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by NaAsia Bristol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guyana&#8217;s push to become an investment hub continues building momentum,\u00a0with President Irfaan Ali revealing that several international delegations\u00a0are preparing to visit the country to scope out opportunities in various non-oil sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be welcoming more than four international delegations,\u00a0all interested not in oil and gas,\u00a0but in investing in tourism,\u00a0in investing in food production,\u00a0investing in manufacturing,\u00a0and investing in value creation,&#8221; the president said during a recent commissioning ceremony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ali explained that with the focus now on attracting investment in tourism,\u00a0food production, manufacturing, and value creation,\u00a0it is time for local companies to contribute to making this vision a reality.\u00a0He also noted that Guyana must move beyond being merely a consumer market\u00a0and urged companies benefiting from the country&#8217;s rapid growth\u00a0to establish local manufacturing and agro-processing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that the government has already provided extensive incentives\u00a0to support value-added production and job creation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To foreign investors present in Guyana,\u00a0the President urged them to deepen their commitment to the local economy.\u00a0The head of state made it clear that Guyana can no longer depend solely on imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to challenge regional manufacturers to establish operations here\u00a0if they intend to continue expanding their market shares.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-scouting non-oil investment opportunities -by NaAsia Bristol Guyana&#8217;s push to become an investment hub continues building momentum,\u00a0with President Irfaan Ali revealing that several international delegations\u00a0are preparing to visit the country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,363,350],"tags":[488,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-30558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-national-transformation","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30560,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30558\/revisions\/30560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}