Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo begins a five-day working visit to Jamaica today.

He will be accompaniedby Odinga Lumumba, his presiden-tial advisor on community development.

Jagdeo's first assignment will be a tour of the Jamaica Broilers ethanol plant at Port Esquivel, St Catherine. He will also attend the Emancipation Jubilee at Seville, St Ann, this evening.

He will attend an Emancipation Day ceremony in Spanish Town's square on Saturday and will meet with a Caribbean Community task force at the Office of the Prime Minister.

Jagdeo has been a staunch critic of free trade policies that undermine Caribbean sectors and has, in recent years, come under fire for attacks on sections of the Guyanese press.