With the first shipment of fertiliser from Venezuela under the PetroCaribe Agreement missing its mid-September deadline the Agriculture Ministry is promising the arrival of the 5,000 tonnes of urea by the week’s end.
Stabroek News was made to understand that a team from Guyana was sent to Caracas and that September 23 would be the earliest shipping day from Venezuela. This newspaper was told that the holdup was owing to the Venezuelans being unable to allocate a suitable ship that could carry the load. As a result,