Since the formal opening of the Takutu Bridge in September 2009 by President Bharrat Jagdeo and then Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula Da Silva, there has been a significant intensification of public discourse regarding the prospects of stronger trade and economic ties between Guyana and Brazil.
In previous years, the issue of strengthening economic links with Brazil had been limited to political pronouncements that simply took no account of what it would require to make those links a reality and, on occasion, the signing of bilateral protocols and MOUs, which, thereafter, bore little if any fruit. The commissioning of the Takutu Bridge
