MSE small business grants moving at a snail’s pace

One of the issues that have arisen in relation to the highly touted US$5 million Micro and Small Enterprise and Building Alternative Livelihoods for Vulnerable Groups (MSE) project, funded by the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF), is what would appear to be the slow pace of the processing and disbursement of grants to beneficiaries.

Because of the concerns that have arisen and have been exhaustively debated in recent years regarding the scarcity of institutions for the financing micro and small privately run enterprises,