Venezuela offers assistance to Caribbean countries

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – VENEZUELA has pledged to offer assistance to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in a number of areas, including transportation, Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar said here Saturday. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held talks with CARICOM leaders during a near hour-long visit to Trinidad where the Regional leaders were wrapping up their 34th annual summit. He left the meeting without addressing the media, but President Ramotar told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) that President Maduro, who came to power following the death of Hugo Chavez in March, made a presentation to the leaders “offering some very concrete areas in which we could cooperate and Venezuela was ready to work with CARICOM…including the vexed issue of transport. “He is ready to work and put some resources into transport issues, ready to look into culture, areas of health and other areas generally, but as President Maduro was saying, he is ready to work with CARICOM in many of the areas we have interest in.”