Antigua & Barbuda Signs New Investment and Food Security Deal with Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda has secured a new agreement with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela focused on investment and food security. During Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, it was announced that Minister for Agriculture, Anthony Smith Jr., will lead a delegation to Venezuela to negotiate the acquisition of 25 acres of land for agricultural development, aimed at bolstering the nation’s food security.
The agreement, signed at the ALBA House, was formalized by Yván Gil, Venezuela’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Anthony Smith Jr., Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries, and the Blue Economy. This collaboration is part of the larger AgroAlba initiative, a multilateral project under the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), following a similar agreement signed with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines earlier this month.
Minister Smith highlighted the importance of such programs in addressing poverty and resolving key social challenges, noting that the agreement is a significant step toward strengthening regional food security and economic cooperation.
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So we give up on farming locally and go to start farm in Venezuela for food security…Venezuela’s food security u mean..
Venezuela started wooing the other Caribbean countries of course except Guyana since in the late seventies/ early eighties. This would have been to gather support on their side during the Venezuela Guyana border dispute or the grabbing of Guyana lands by Venezuela. In those days they gave agriculture scholarships. Same old ploy. In the meantime the people of Venezuela are suffering, starving from successive repressive regimes. They are fleeing their homes to near by Caribbean and South America countries. Trinidad and Tobago is now overloaded with Venezuelan, they go by sea on dangerous journeys in unsafe small boats. Many perish.
So isn’t it best to stay within do region and work together with Guyana our own, to reduce our import bill and work together on our food security.
Hon.Anthony Smith who advise you to bring Dene Jonas back back around the ministry of agriculture? He will only lead you down a slippery slope. You talk about your experience with UPP executive. You are now moving with the most arrogant and disrespectful person. He doesn’t have any respect for the agriculture technicians. His type will behave like he is better then you, that hd is more educated then you and will try and move ahead of you. Trust me he cannot help himself.