Venezuela will now be importing rice from Suriname as part of the PetroCaribe agreement.
This deal was hammered out following a lightning visit by Venezue-lan President Nicolas Maduro to Paramaribo yesterday. Maduro’s visit was one of several to Caricom countries this weekend and came in the backdrop of efforts by Caracas to mobilise support for its position in the simmering border controversy with Guyana.
Surinamese media reported last evening that during the half-day visit Maduro and his counterpart, President Desi Bouterse of
