Chief Executive Officer of the Roraima Group of Companies Captain Gerry Gouveia said he felt Minister Manniram Prashad’s response to Caribbean tourism body President Josef Forstmayr was excessive and unnecessary.
In an invited comment, Gouveia also posited that Caribbean countries can significantly reduce the cost of hospitality services through the creation of a regional agricultural policy that provides scope for “a tourism cuisine culture that can rely on the availability of cheaper foods grown here in the region”.
Gouveia was asked to weigh in on the exchange, which began with a statement by President Bharrat Jagdeo dismissing as “absolute nonsense” the claims by
