The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TT Cham­ber) and the George­town Cham­ber of Com­merce and In­dus­try (GC­CI) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) aimed at strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al trade, in­vest­ment and pri­vate sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana.

The agree­ment, signed on Wednes­day by TT Cham­ber Pres­i­dent Karen Yip Chuck and GC­CI Pres­i­dent Kathy Smith, es­tab­lish­es a for­mal frame­work for both or­gan­i­sa­tions to work to­geth­er in ad­dress­ing trade chal­lenges, pro­mot­ing in­vest­ment and ex­pand­ing com­mer­cial op­por­tu­ni­ties for busi­ness­es in both coun­tries.

Ac­cord­ing to the TT Cham­ber, the agree­ment builds on work that be­gan dur­ing the 2023–2024 Cham­ber year un­der then TT Cham­ber Pres­i­dent Ki­ran Ma­haraj and then GC­CI Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Tuck­er, along­side for­mer Se­nior Vice Pres­i­dent Kester Hut­son. That col­lab­o­ra­tion fo­cused on iden­ti­fy­ing and doc­u­ment­ing non-tar­iff bar­ri­ers af­fect­ing trade and in­vest­ment be­tween the two coun­tries.