Guyana’s annual rice barter agreement with Venezuela since 2009 will conclude in November of this year with Finance Minister, Winston Jordan yesterday stating that since 2014 Venezuela was signalling that there would be no additional arrangements under the PetroCaribe fund.
Jordan downplayed the impact of the ongoing row between Guyana and Venezuela over the latter’s maritime decree saying that Caracas’s intentions to discontinue the annual agreement had already been communicated to the previous administration.
“They were signalling since last year that there will be no more rice, no
