Jun 23, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – The PPP Govt-initiated $40B Guyana Development Bank (Bank) can be great. Ordinary Guyanese-poor, harbouring inspired ideas, but lacking capital-have opportunity beckoning. Opportunity to rise from where they are to what they envision could be, should be. Again, compliments to the PPP Govt for this brainchild. What has high much potential for individual, family, community, prosperity. Let it never be said that I didn’t extol the government.

Much has been written about the bank. Its innate goodness, noble charter, inspiring character. Gnawing concerns persist. Still, no tainting to this offering by dealing in who defends for a dollar. Or the rancidly partisan who behold the worst. I see potential for the worst malfeasances in this bank. I detect that it can be a lifeline to Guyanese who need the monetary boost. Above bottom-house, beyond street corners, out of the economic lowlands so prone to floods of woes that there’s weeping. Only weeping.