The ANSA McAL Group host­ed its Grow­ing with Guyana net­work­ing cock­tail and busi­ness show­case at the Mar­riott in George­town, bring­ing to­geth­er the Pres­i­dent of the Co­op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana, Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, along­side se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness lead­ers, part­ners and col­leagues from T&T and Guyana for an evening of strate­gic di­a­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion.

ANSA McAL’s group CEO, An­tho­ny Sab­ga III, em­pha­sised the con­glom­er­ate’s en­dur­ing pres­ence in Guyana for more than 30 years, not­ing that the group’s Trinida­di­an roots and Caribbean iden­ti­ty de­fined its ap­proach to do­ing busi­ness across the re­gion.

“Grow­ing with Guyana is not about ex­pan­sion for ex­pan­sion’s sake. It is about part­ner­ship, shared progress and long-term com­mit­ment to the peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties we serve across the Caribbean,” he stat­ed.

The event spot­light­ed ANSA McAL’s strate­gic nar­ra­tive of Grow­ing with Guyana, po­si­tion­ing the group as a trust­ed part­ner in Guyana’s Vi­sion 2040.

Key high­lights in­clud­ed:

• The An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Award— Frances Bain-Cum­ber­batch, group chief le­gal and ex­ter­nal af­fairs of­fi­cer and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary, un­der­scored the awards as the defin­ing ex­pres­sion of ANSA McAL’s pan-Caribbean com­mit­ment to so­cial de­vel­op­ment.

Con­ceived in T&T and ful­ly fund­ed by the ANSA McAL Foun­da­tion, the Awards have since 2005 recog­nised 71 out­stand­ing Caribbean pro­fes­sion­als, in­vest­ing TT$34 mil­lion to sup­port their work. Guyana has pro­duced 16 lau­re­ates, and next month George­town will host the 2026 Awards cer­e­mo­ny, ho­n­our­ing one of Guyana’s own;

• Com­mu­ni­ty Im­pact— Bain-Cum­ber­batch high­light­ed ini­tia­tives from 2025 in­clud­ing spon­sor­ship of the Park­side Steel Or­ches­tra and Pan on the Wall cul­tur­al show­case, road safe­ty part­ner­ships along the Es­se­qui­bo Coast, and sup­port for the Em­pow­er Guyana: Cen­ter for Eq­ui­ty and In­no­va­tion.

• Na­tion­al Call for So­cial In­vest­ment Pro­pos­als— Melanie Richards, head of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and so­cial in­vest­ment, an­nounced the launch of the ANSA McAL Foun­da­tion’s na­tion­al Call for So­cial In­vest­ment Pro­pos­als in Guyana.

Reg­is­tered civ­il so­ci­ety or­gan­i­sa­tions are in­vit­ed to sub­mit pro­grammes fo­cused on ed­u­ca­tion (STEM, TVET, en­tre­pre­neur­ship) and com­mu­ni­ty-based youth de­vel­op­ment, with ANSA McAL in­vest­ing GYD $20 mil­lion (US $100,000) across two se­lect­ed part­ners, sup­port­ed by a one-day Ca­pac­i­ty Build­ing Work­shop.

The foun­da­tion’s man­date spans the full Caribbean, with T&T at its cen­tre, and the struc­tured so­cial in­vest­ment mod­el be­ing pi­lot­ed in Guyana re­flects the Group’s broad­er re­gion­al am­bi­tion.

• Sub­sidiary Show­case—Guests ex­plored mi­ni ex­po-style booths host­ed by ANSA McAL’s sub­sidiaries; ANSA McAL Dis­tri­b­u­tion Inc, ANSA Mo­tors Guyana, ANSA Build­ing So­lu­tions Guyana, Guyana Brew­eries, and ANSA McAL Re­al Es­tate, gain­ing first­hand in­sight in­to the im­pact of each busi­ness on Guyana’s econ­o­my and com­mu­ni­ties.

Guests were al­so in­vit­ed to view a short film show­cas­ing ANSA McAL’s pres­ence in Guyana and its com­mit­ment to build­ing en­dur­ing part­ner­ships.

“Guyana is de­fined not on­ly by eco­nom­ic mo­men­tum, but by re­silience, tal­ent, and am­bi­tion,” the Group CEO, An­tho­ny Sab­ga III not­ed.

“That is why our in­vest­ments go be­yond in­fra­struc­ture and op­er­a­tions. We in­vest in peo­ple. We in­vest in lead­er­ship. And we in­vest in re­la­tion­ships that stand the test of time.”

The Grow­ing with Guyana event reaf­firmed ANSA McAL’s role as a re­spect­ed Caribbean group de­liv­er­ing mu­tu­al, demon­stra­ble ben­e­fits to com­mu­ni­ties, gov­ern­ment, and busi­ness across the re­gion, the group said in a news re­lease.