The Guyanese Diaspora in the United States continues to play an important role in the broader Caribbean effort to strengthen and expand commercial relations between the United States and its Caribbean neighbours.
Those efforts are centred around a new law, the US Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act, signed in December by the then president Barack Obama, which provides for the design and implementation of new initiatives and programmes to enhance the relations between the US and the Caribbean.
This week, Chairman of the Private Sector Council of the Washington DC-based Institute of Caribbean Studies Wesley Kirton told Stabroek Business that “trade and investment have to be major components of our diplomatic relations and we in the diaspora have