As Guyana helps Trinidad revive rice industry, honey issue closer to resolution – Mustapha

“We are coming closer to an agreement,” Mustapha said.

He added that the two countries have technical personnel dissecting the issues and the matter is before CARICOM’s ministerial taskforce on food security.

Trinidad’s 1935 Beekeeping and Bee Products Act, which blocks the transshipment of honey originating outside the Windward and Leeward Islands. Guyana and Grenada have long advocated for an end to these restrictions, arguing that it violates the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.

That Treaty is CARICOM’s central treaty.

Mustapha added that other trade barriers that exist with Trinidad and other countries are being removed as those countries are interested in more produce from Guyana.