Five companies get trade finance help under IDB/Demerara Bank facility

From left are Chief Executive Officer of Demerara Bank Pravinchandra Dave, a beneficiary of the TFFP programme, Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance Dr. Ashni Singh, IDB Country Representative Sophie Makonnen and Founder and Chairman of Demerara Bank Dr Yesu Persaud.

Five local companies yesterday received short-term trade financing assistance under a US$7m facility established between the IDB and Demerara Bank Limited (DBL).

The ceremony for the handing over of the Letters of Sanction was held at DBL’s headquarters on Camp Street.

The names of the five recipients were not provided at the ceremony and their representatives declined to speak to Stabroek News on the purposes to which the financing would be employed.