President David Granger yesterday continued the pressure on Venezuela over its stunning bid to appropriate Guyana’s Atlantic waters, declaring that a replacement decree issued by Caracas was still exceptionable and that Georgetown would broaden its diplomatic offensive to counter it.
Addressing the National Assembly for the second time in less than a month, Granger declared that the May 26th decree which sparked a crisis in relations with Venezuela was “like a fishbone in our throats”.
The Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces reiterated that the short-term objective was to