Last Monday’s launch of the new Forshaw and Oronoque streets business establishment, HFD Mining Supplies marks the continuation of a steady growth in investments in Guyana by Suriname.
It is a development that could hardly have been foreseen just over a decade ago when Surinamese gunboats audaciously expelled Canadian company CGX from its oil exploration pursuits in the Corentyne river, triggering resort by Guyana to international legal proceedings to settle the issue.
The traditional people-to-people contact between Guyana and Suriname has developed into brisk