Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday acknowledged that a deal reached in August last year for 150 Guyanese fishermen to be licensed for Surinamese waters is in limbo.
The agreement had been reached between President Irfaan Ali and his visiting Surinamese counterpart Chandrikapersad Santokhi and was supposed to be in place by January 1st, 2022.
This has not materialised and Corentyne fishermen have been complaining bitterly. The matter was raised during a visit to Skeldon, Upper Corentyne yesterday by Jagdeo. He suggested that a group of persons in Suriname who are benefitting from the present arrangement are against the approval of the licences.
