Greenidge labels Caracas maritime decree ‘baseless and shameless’

Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge making his statement on the maritime decree

Declaring that Venezuela’s maritime Decree of May 26th 2015 was a “baseless and shameless” bid to usurp Guyana’s territory, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday said that a definitive solution must be found to this shadow that has hung over the country for 49 years and he signalled that the government would be moving for a juridical settlement of the border controversy.

In his maiden foreign policy statement to the first sitting of the 11th Parliament, Greenidge fuelled months of