Guyana/Suriname business forum to discuss trade, smuggling, piracy

Upper Corentyne Chamber President Abraham Subnauth

Planning is underway among businessmen in Berbice and Suriname for the staging of a major business summit between the two sides, which Upper Corentyne business officials say seeks to regularise trade and widen business relations between enterprises on both sides of the Corentyne River.

On Tuesday Stabroek Business spoke with President of the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Abraham Subnauth who disclosed that his Chamber was partnering with the Central Corentyne Chamber, the Berbice (New Amsterdam) Chamber and the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC) to host a two-day forum with the Surinamese business community under the theme ‘Bringing Business Together: Guyana/Suriname’. He said the purpose of the forum, which is tentatively scheduled for January 16 -17 in the Corentyne was to identify and, as far as possible, seek to remove trade barriers between business entities on the two sides of the Corentyne River.

Stabroek Business had earlier learnt from Berbice Chamber of Commerce President Mark Roopnarine that a business delegation from Guyana had