{"id":204749,"date":"2023-10-09T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=204749"},"modified":"2023-10-09T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:50:58","slug":"first-it-was-guyana-and-now-suriname-wants-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/09\/first-it-was-guyana-and-now-suriname-wants-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"First it was Guyana and now Suriname wants investments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chandrikapersad-Santokhi-visita-RD-Presidencia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204727\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chandrikapersad-Santokhi-visita-RD-Presidencia.png 1014w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chandrikapersad-Santokhi-visita-RD-Presidencia-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Chandrikapersad-Santokhi-visita-RD-Presidencia-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic is currently increasing its diplomatic presence in the former colonies of England and Holland in South America &#8212; Guyana and Suriname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana and Suriname are now independent countries that are blessed with gas and oil deposits awaiting exploitation. The Dominican Republic has been pursuing a diplomatic path for Dominican-based businesses to secure a foothold in the area and participate in the exploitation, refining and commercialization of the oil and gas deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, a visit by the President of Guyana was followed by announcements of investment opportunities and other interesting possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past week, the President of Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, visited the and once again, the theme was investment opportunities in the country was on the table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader and Suriname President Chandrikapersad Santokhi signed a letter of understanding regarding the investment opportunities. One of the possibilities is that the Dominican Republic would become a major consumer of crude oil and natural gas from these two countries and also participate in the refining of the crude oil since it has a lot of experience in refining here in Santo Domingo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/gobierno-dominicano-firma-con-surinam-cuatro-convenios-trascendentales-para-el\">Presidency <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2023\/10\/05\/inversion-en-surinam-oportunidades-que-tiene-rd\/2482681\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/gobierno-dominicano-firma-con-surinam-cuatro-convenios-trascendentales-para-el-fortalecimiento-economico-del-pais\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 October 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic is currently increasing its diplomatic presence in the former colonies of England and Holland in South America &#8212; Guyana and Suriname. Guyana and Suriname are now independent countries that are blessed with gas and oil deposits awaiting exploitation. The Dominican Republic has been pursuing a diplomatic path for Dominican-based businesses to secure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/10\/09\/first-it-was-guyana-and-now-suriname-wants-investments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204749"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204803,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204749\/revisions\/204803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}