Funds to be sought for infrastructure to link Guyana, Brazil -communique

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (left) and Guyana’s President, Iraan Ali at the press conference yesterday.

Guyana and Brazil have agreed to collaborate in a number of areas and key among them is sourcing funds for infrastructural projects that will link the two countries, Georgetown and Brasilia yesterday announced.

“For Guyana and Brazil, there is an opportunity that is now, an opportunity that can highly integrate our economies and create enormous opportunities for the people of our two countries. We discussed not only the connectivity of infrastructure through roads, ports, air transport, but we discussed the connectivity of our people, the role of the private sector, the involvement of the private sector, and how we can get our private sectors, more integrated to look at the opportunities that exist in both Guyana and Brazil and look at ways in which we can bring them together, in making use of those opportunities,” President Irfaan Ali stated during a joint press conference held by the two leaders yesterday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre in Liliendaal.