SEVERAL high-level representatives from the Cuban sugar industry met with a team from the Guyana Embassy in Cuba to continue discussions on co-operation between Guyana and Cuba. The first meeting was held last month and continued on Wednesday.
According to the Guyana Embassy in Cuba, the Cuban side was led by the Deputy Director, International Relations and Business, Naivy Carreras Laurens, and included Sr. Raul Sabadi, Technology Director of the Cuban Research Institute of Sugar Cane By-Products (ICIDCA); Sr. José M. Mesa, Science and Technology Director of the Cuban Institute of Sugar Cane Research (INICA), and a specialist attached to TECNOAZUCAR, the State entity which had previously signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with GuySuCo in 2002. Cuba, along with India and Brazil, is one of the world’s three leading producers of cane sugar and one of the largest exporters of sugar. It has eleven sugar refineries and exports both raw and refined sugar.
The Guyana Embassy team included Ambassador Halim Majeed; Minister Counsellor Heather Seelochan, and Senior Administrative Assistant, Gabriel Gonzalez.