Guyana sugar to fill shortfall in Barbados market
Fishing pact also likely
Stabroek News
February 19, 2003
Barbados will now import Guyana’s sugar to meet its local demands, Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, announced at the Fourteenth Inter-Sessional meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend.
Meanwhile the two countries are hoping to conclude discussions on a bilateral fishing agreement by next week, President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced.
In an interview with GINA following the Fourteenth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the CARICOM Heads of Government in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend, Jagdeo said Guyana and Barbados were able to “move forward to better explore our fishing resources, which would be used as a model to stop the bilateral problems between our fishermen.”
The announcement regarding Barbados’ decision to purchase Guyana’s sugar followed a proposal President Jagdeo had put to Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Billie Miller at the CARICOM Council of Trade and Economic Development (COTED) meeting held in Georgetown earlier in the month, GINA said. Miller had said that Barbados would consider the idea. Discussions were subsequently held between the two countries on the issue.
The Heads of Government also discussed the challenge that Brazil and Australia have mounted to the European Union sugar regime.
