UK Trade Mission 2025 launches in Guyana as bilateral trade reaches 1.6B

Trade between Guyana and the United Kingdom (UK) continues to accelerate, and on Tuesday, 11 UK-based companies commenced a high-level trade mission to explore new strategic partnerships in the country.

At the launch hosted at the Guyana Marriott Hotel, Kingston, Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh said Guyana is “ripe with business opportunities” and urged visiting companies to pursue meaningful investments across key sectors.

Acting British High Commissioner Alain Archibald; Paulette Hamilton, the UK’s Trade Envoy for the Caribbean; Chris Bennett of the Caribbean Council; D’Jamila Ward, Regional Director for the Commonwealth Caribbean at the UK’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT); Sherwyn Naughton, Country Director, DBT; and Anand Harrilall, BritCham Guyana Board Director, were among those attending the launch.

Dr Singh also outlined Guyana’s push for deeper regional integration, pointing to planned road links with Brazil and Suriname and the country’s ambition to establish an international port.

“What that does for anyone investing in Guyana is immediately open up northern Brazil to you. An investment in Guyana is literally capacity to serve that market,” he noted.

Highlighting the growing momentum in bilateral commerce, Ward revealed that trade between Guyana and the UK reached 1.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, reaffirming Guyana’s position as the UK’s largest trading partner in the Caribbean.

The 11 participating British companies include Sirius Insight, Rosetta Stone, REIDsteel, Rainbo, NSG Exports Limited, NCUK University Pathways, Mowlem, ITT, and Cura Terrae. Their focus spans agriculture, education, health, energy, security, and infrastructure development.

Mission lead and UK Trade Envoy Paulette Hamilton described Guyana as a pivotal investment destination, noting that the economy grew by 43.6% in 2024. She cited UK company Rio-Med as an example of the transformative partnerships already underway, as it supports Guyana’s health sector through the implementation of an electronic health records system.

“Such strategic investment has the potential for significant symbiosis with the new UK industrial strategy and business priorities,” Hamilton said.
She added that the mission offers compelling opportunities for UK companies to partner with Guyana to advance its national development goals—combining UK expertise with Guyanese ambition to create lasting, high-value impact.