Guyana is not currently considering accepting refugees from neighbouring Venezuela but would take returning Guyanese. According to President David Granger, the economic crisis in Venezuela will no doubt affect the security of the region, with Guyana wanting an orderly resolution to the situation.

The economy of neighbouring Venezuela, a country with the large oil reserves, has been in crisis since the decline in oil prices on the world market. International media report that three years of recession, crime, shortages, looting, electricity and water rationing, and inflation projected to rise to as much as 700 percent, has angered Venezuelans. “I am deeply concerned, Guyana has special interest because of the territorial question, but I think the whole region is concerned about what is taking place in Venezuela, and we hope that there is not going to be a resort to lawlessness,” President Granger stated in a Ministry of the Presidency statement. (KAIETEUR NEWS/photo: caribbeantrakker.com)…[+]