Hugh Todd, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, held informal discussions with Senator, Dr Amery Browne, Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, last week.
A release today from Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that both Ministers “underscored the valuable bilateral relationship and longstanding, strong ties. They agreed to meet formally on matters of mutual interest on Wednesday 30th June 2021, via videoconference”.
Discord has arisen between Georgetown and Port of Spain over several matters including a view here that Trinidadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley had disparaged Guyana’s COVID-19 vaccination programme when he said that the country was using a vaccine which had not been approved by the World Health Organisation.
There was also contretemps over a recent offer of assistance from Trinidad in relation to flooding here. Georgetown declined the offer of food and other supplies and said that all that it was interested in was drainage pumps.
