HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon and U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt have continued to meet and the engagement is one that is being undertaken in good faith.

Dr. Luncheon said so yesterday at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President, in Georgetown.
The $300M United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) project has been halted to facilitate talks, aimed at reaching a consensus between the Guyana Government and the United States Embassy in Georgetown.
The announcement was made last week during a press conference at which the two parties issued a joint statement.
The statement said: “The Governments of Guyana and the United States of America have agreed that the implementation of the activities of the USAID LEAD project would be put on hold, temporarily, during the re-engagement on the design of that project the two sides have agreed would commence immediately.”
At the end of the meeting, the two parties had agreed to continue discussions with a view to charting a way forward for the benefit of Guyanese.