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Posted: Tuesday 26 April, 2016 at 1:15 PM

Guyana to build on bilateral relations with SKN

Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister the Hon. Carl Greenidge
By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – OVER the years, and even before the birth of CARICOM, Guyana and St. Kitts and Nevis have been enjoying fruitful relations and the government of the South American country is now endeavouring to further strengthen bilateral ties.

     

    Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Carl Greenidge told media representatives at the recently concluded ECLAC meeting held in St. Kitts that his government would be looking intently at past relationships and use them as a launching pad for future development.

    The Minister pointed to the movement of skilled labour in the past as part of the bilateral relationship that exist between the two countries.

    Going forward, the South American nation would be looking at several areas of interest where trade and other relations can be fostered.

    “There are opportunities I think for cooperation on a variety of fronts that have fallen away; the sharing of expertise, access to markets and the likes. And so we would be taking up with St. Kitts and Nevis what the possibilities are,” Greenidge said.  

    The Minister also told the media that Guyana could partner with the sharing of artifacts to further boost the Federation’s booming tourism industry.

    “You have a vibrant tourism industry and we can look at the supply more carefully of artifacts and materials. Guyana has a very large indigenous community, a vibrant community, the only one that has grown  continually since 19th Century.”

    Guyanese, like many others from CARICOM member states, have utilized the free movement under the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), which has allowed for professionals to move throughout the region, while business owners can establish entities within the region as well. 

    Greenidge noted that in the long term Guyana’s market is open to the Federation, pointing out that when an airline arrangement is in place, the two countries could work towards an arrangement within the tourism sector that would benefit both nations.

    “Combining St. Kitts and Nevis and other Caribbean territories  with the ecotourism potential of Guyana, and I have seen since my last visit here to St. Kitts and Nevis, there has been tremendous economic development in terms of the infrastructure for tourism  and so forth.

    “So I think the prospects are good for deepening relations.”

    For decades, many Guyanese have made St. Kitts and Nevis their home.

    The Federation is part of a partial scope agreement with both Guyana and Brazil that would allow for the movement of goods from St. Kitts and Nevis into the Portuguese-speaking South American market without a heavy tariffs.
     
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