Guyana’s government is mobilizing some US$60M from the World Bank, OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Islamic Development Bank, in addition to a $4.5B package it had announced earlier to bolster the national response to COVID-19.
President Irfaan Ali, on Wednesday, during an address to the nation from State House said that those sums are in addition to the US$1M grant received from the Government of India.
Addressing public health and safety, he said there are needs for stimulus incentives and arrangements to encourage business stability, delivering relief measures to persons affected at the household level and delivering education to children in a non-conventional manner in the COVID-19 environment.
