GBTI registers $1.5b profit

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) registered an after-tax profit of $1.52b for 2017, sharply down from the $2.043b profit in 2016.
According to its financial statements published in yesterday’s Stabroek News, after-tax profit slid by 25.57% and the bank also saw a decline in interest income and loans and advances.
Interest income