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Lethem businessmen discuss trade, tourism on Venezuela, Brazil borders
Members of the Lethem delegation during the one day event at Boa Vista, Brazil.
Several Rupununi businessmen participated in the second tripartite meeting with their counterparts from Venezuela and Brazil on the development of tourism and trade on the frontiers of the three countries.
The one-day meeting was held in Boa Vista, Brazil late last week and the proprietors of 16 business entities operating in the Lethem Commercial Zone, Region Nine (Upper Essequibo/Upper Takutu) and Lethem attended and participated, a reliable source disclosed.
The emphasis was on tourism and trade and participants from the business sector of the three frontiers discussed wide possible areas of cooperation and trade.
The business group from Guyana explored the possibility of in transiting goods such as building materials, plastic wares and fuel from the Brazilian and Venezuelan frontiers since these items are expensive to bring into Lethem from Georgetown given the occasionally poor state of the Lethem to Georgetown road.
A three-man committee, one person from each country was formed to examine possibilities of trade.
Mr Daniel Gajie, former President of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) and acting President of THAG, was identified to represent Guyana’s Frontier on the committee.
During the tripartite meeting it was recognized that the greatest barrier to trade and other development was the language barrier.
The businessmen agreed that a special effort will be made by members of their communities to learn those languages which they do not know.
The first tripartite meeting between the three frontiers was held in Santa Helena, Venezuela last year.
There is an asphalt road linking the Guyana frontier to Caracas, Venezuela via the state of Roraima, Brazil.
The newly formed working committee will meet shortly to look at tourism and trade, a businessman who attended the meeting disclosed.
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