Raising the lid on the Guyana/Trinidad and Tobago land-for-farming deal

The Minister of Agriculture would do well to seek to determine with due haste the current status of the Guyana/Trinidad and Tobago land-for-farming deal that may have been struck over two years ago and under which private investors from the twin-island republic were to be allocated large tracts of land here to invest in mega farms.

The idea was one of many that had emerged from the surfeit of regional chatter over Caribbean food security and expressed concerns over an out-of-control regional food bill believed to have been in the region of US$4 billion in 2014. It will be recalled too that this was supposed