{"id":11686,"date":"2023-07-02T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2023-07-02T18:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:50:51","slug":"tt-to-address-challenges-to-honey-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/tt-to-address-challenges-to-honey-export\/","title":{"rendered":"T&amp;T To Address Challenges To Honey Export"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-neeon-secondary-color has-text-color\"><strong>\u2026Guyana &amp; Grenada Optimistic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Irfaan Ali is optimistic that Trinidad and Tobago will soon address the honey exporting issue faced by Guyana and Grenada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For several years, there has been a difficulty exporting honey into the Caribbean markets because of transshipment restrictions in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali-155x87.png 155w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/President-of-Guyana-Irfaan-Ali.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Twin Island Republic initially restricted the importation of honey from Grenada and other Caribbean countries over concerns of a potentially disastrous disease of honeybees, the American Foulbrood disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Trinidadian Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley has committed to addressing the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like President Ali, the Grenadian Minister with Responsibility for Agriculture and Lands, Adrian Thomas believes that the matter will be resolved soon noting that T&amp;T and Grenada are working on an amicable solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Trinidad is still being guided by an outdated Food and Drug Act of 1960 and Beekeeping and Bee products Act of 1935, both President Ali &amp; Minister Thomas explained that it would have to be a decision by T&amp;T government to repeal the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Guyana &amp; Grenada Optimistic President Irfaan Ali is optimistic that Trinidad and Tobago will soon address the honey exporting issue faced by Guyana and Grenada. For several years, there has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11689,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}