Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali called on Guyanese in Canada to “come home and invest.”

During a weekend visit to Toronto, President Ali said that not only did Guyana need its human resources more than ever, but investment opportunities were sure and did not need approval from him to flourish.

“Rediscover your country; rediscover its future and then make appropriate decisions. There is no doubt we are talking about an economy that will be a US$10 billion economy by 2030. We are talking GDP [Gross Domestic Product] per capita that will move to be about US$30k. We need people and we need people badly,” the President said during an address at a breakfast event organized by the International Muslim Organization of Toronto.

He spoke of the many developmental projects that are ongoing and those that his government has planned for the future

During his three-day trip to Toronto, he visited several locations with a packed itinerary that included meetings with community leaders and engagements with thousands of members in the diaspora.

Discussing the expanding Guyanese economy, Ali noted that many developmental projects were already in the works and there were many more in the pipeline and more and more windows of opportunity were becoming available to nationals living abroad.

“We have a massive transformational program, and if you come to Guyana and you don’t feel the energy and see the transformation, I would ask you to come back, or you can get good eye care in Guyana,” President Ali humorously remarked.

In his feature address delivered at the La Primavera Banquet Hall in Woodbridge, President Ali spoke of the development of Guyana’s own “world-class service sector”.

Accomplishing such an objective did not mean Guyana had to replicate the development strategies of other countries, he said.

Instead, he declared his government’s objective was one that was enabling, autonomous, and focused on experiences that were unique, and nationally identifiable and characteristic of

the Guyanese milieu.

 “What is wrong with us developing our own model? We must have the ability to design and propel our own brand. That is what is going to make us different,” he declared.