Comprehensive agricultural revitalisation plan for ECD communities
- initial focus on D&I upgrading
GOVERNMENT’s vision for advanced agriculture is being pursued in more communities including the East Coast Demerara, where farming activities are being revitalised in areas that were left uncultivated for several years.
During a visit last Saturday to several East Coast Demerara (ECD) communities including Victoria/Belfield, Buxton and Montrose, Minister of Agriculture, […]
Agriculture diversification programme seeks to reposition sector
The US$20M Agriculture Export Diversification Programme currently being implemented by government is a multi-faceted strategy that seeks to reposition the sector with focus on establishment of the necessary framework to lead the process in all the targeted areas including the livestock industry.
The Diversification Programme funded by government with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) […]
Message for Healthy Vision Month 2008
- from Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy
Too many people in our country and around the world go blind or live with impaired vision because of causes that are totally preventable. The vast majority of people who are blind or who live with some form of impaired vision could have had these conditions prevented. It is […]
Guyana to host Folk Festival Symposium, games in August
- in celebration of Wordsworth McAndrew’s ideas
GUYANA is likely to be the host of the 2008 Guyana Folk Festival symposium and festival of folk games which have been ongoing in the United States of America for about eight years.
The event will be a celebration of the ideas of Wordsworth McAndrew who recently died and is […]
PNCR divided in its support for Carifesta
THE main Opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) is seemingly divided in its support for the upcoming mega event – the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta).
The Chairman of Region Four, Mr. Clement Corlette, says that the Region is fully committed to Carifesta and that many of the villages in Region Four are already in the […]
Gasoline remains below $1000 due to government’s interventions
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo’s promise to the public transportation sector to monitor the rising cost of fuel and to intervene appropriately if necessary has been kept as the Excise Tax on gasoline was on Monday reduced by 10 per cent, from 17 per cent to seven per cent.
This was a further reduction of the tax which […]
Two killed, six injured in Potaro road collision
A HEAD-ON collision, between a minibus and a Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Land Cruiser, yesterday claimed the lives of two men and left six other persons seriously injured.
The accident happened on the Potaro Road, 16 miles from Mahdia, where minibus driver Alvin Henry nicknamed ‘Buffy’, of Kwakwani Scheme, Berbice River and 56-year-old Evron […]
Guyana ready to be a world model in devising partnerships
-President Jagdeo tells CI’s global awareness campaign
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has once again put forward Guyana’s resolve to participate in the committed global fight against Climate Change.
The Guyanese Head of State, speaking at a Conservation International (CI) press conference in New York yesterday, said Guyana is ready to be a model for the world in devising […]
Pit bulls maul vagrant, tears off scalp
By Michel Outridge
AN unidentified man was mauled by three pit bulls yesterday afternoon in an abandoned lot on Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown.
Up to press time, the victim, called “Rawle” (only name given), was receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital and listed in a critical condition.
He is scheduled to undergo surgery.
The man, who residents […]
Special 27th COTED to deliberate on food prices
- forum opens today in Georgetown
MINISTERS of Trade of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) today will discuss rising food prices at the 27th special meeting of COTED at the Le Meridien, Pegasus.
The ministerial Council for Trade and Economic Development will also focus on maximising agricultural production, ahead of the Regional Agriculture Investment Forum which Guyana will […]
