GBTI to provide loans for IT purchases

At the Internatinal Building Expo: Starr Computers products on display. The company is one of four IT service providers that have teamed up with GBTI.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) is partnering with four of the country’s leading service and solutions providers in the information technology sector in order to raise the level of consumer access to tools necessary for their effective utilisation of the information super highway.

Corporate Secretary and Head of Credit at GBTI Shaleeza Shaw told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview on Wednesday that it will be providing loans ranging from $70,000 to $300,000 to facilitate the acquisition of iPads, Notebooks, Smart Phones and other IT accoutrements.

Shaw told Stabroek Business that under the bank’s ‘Easy To Own, Technology Loan’ plan, it will be