Guyana to launch diaspora bond within one week — Ali
*President Ali announced the bond at a National Stadium press conference Tuesday, framing it as an overseas-Guyanese mechanism to finance major public infrastructure.*
At a press conference at the National Stadium, Providence, on Tuesday, President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali announced that the Government of Guyana will launch a diaspora bond within one week. The instrument, per the announcement, is designed to mobilise overseas Guyanese capital to finance major public infrastructure projects as the country accelerates its national development agenda.
The announcement lands inside a five-year window in which Guyana recorded average annual real GDP growth of 36.1 percent (2021–2025), non-oil real GDP growth averaging 11.3 percent, per-capita income above US$26,000 in 2025, and a population that has now passed one million.
For the diaspora, the decision is concrete: read the prospectus when it lands, look at coupon, tenor, currency of denomination, and any tax treatment between the issuer and the diaspora investor’s country of residence. Diaspora bonds in other emerging economies have ranged from genuinely competitive yield instruments to thinly-traded soft-debt vehicles. Which one Guyana issues will determine whether this is a returns play, an integration play, or both. TWB will publish a structured breakdown when the term sheet is public.
Source: Guyana Chronicle, May 26, 2026; Guyana Times, May 26, 2026.