The alliance is supposed to be about extending "cooperation in various key fields of development, particularly in food security, energy, technology, capacity building, as well as cultural and social exchanges." However, the UAE's dictatorship often has deeper strategic agendas and goals with its alliances, which involve the expansion of Islam, money laundering and trafficking in humans and weapons. Some alliances are also just about raising the profile of the UAE to counteract its image as a crime state.
After Mohamed Irfaan Ali became Guyana's first Muslim President in August of 2020 and the UAE was quick to cozy up to Ali to strengthen his administration and boost Islam in Guyana, which has long been a significant but not major religion in the English speaking and mostly Christian nation.
Islam first took root in Guyana through the African slaves, sold by African Muslim traders to the British for forced labor on plantations in British Guiana. When Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 it switched to indentured workers from India they called coolies, who were treated little better than slaves. With some of the workers from India also came Islam.
Guyana gives Islam a base from which to expand into the Caribbean and South America. Islam is expansionist and that expansion is well funded by UAE and Saudi Arabia. In Africa, the conversion to Islam is forced by terror groups Al Shabab, Boko Haram and dozens of others who kidnap and murder thousands of people every year.
Ali made the new deal with the UAE while attending the COP28 meeting in Dubai.