Kingfishers
Company Profile - Pritipaul Singh Investment Limited
The way Pritipaul Singh Investments Limited is run is the way you’d probably expect a decades-old business to run, people with eons of experience in the fishing industry. A visit to company’s McDoom headquarters is a lesson in efficiency, even if a casually executed efficiency at that.
Fish Food Fact
Guyanese are some of the biggest consumers of fish in the region, packing away close to 60 kg of fish person annually, some 200 to 300 percent more than most other countries in the region. And this is on the increase. Whether it’s simple fried fish and chips or more fancy fare, like the baked […]
Conservation efforts abroad
Europe Clamps Down on Overfishing of Bluefin Tuna
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 20, 2008 (ENS) - The European Commission has launched a major EU control campaign aimed at preventing a repeat of last year’s overfishing of Mediterranean bluefin tuna by a number of EU member states. This season, 16 aircraft and 49 large and small patrol vessels […]
The Blue Revolution
Hope for the industry also lies further out
Speak of sustainability and potential for growth of Guyana’s fishing and the first word that presents itself is “aquaculture” – an activity that is carried out either very close to the shore or completely inland. Yet within Guyana’s vast exclusive economic zone (EEZ) – which extends some 200 […]
Sinking or Swimming?
The state of Guyana’s fishing industry at present
The good news is that the sector is growing in terms of its contribution to the country’s GDP. According to acting Principal Fisheries Officer in the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Tejnarine Geer, the sector has grown from 3% of Guyana’s gross domestic product (GDP) in […]
A Timely venture
Dear Sir,
The Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest) welcomes the publication of this new supplement, the Guyana Chronicle Economic Review. We commend the Board and editorial staff of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited for this initiative.
Correspondence
From the chairman’s desk
Dear Readers,
I am privileged to officially launch this inaugural issue of the GCER. This initiative by Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) is one that has been long in the planning.As a state-owned company, GNNL has a mandate to deliver quality reportage and analysis to the people of Guyana, in any sphere of […]
Rethinking the fish market
Editorial
The commercial fishing industry in Guyana has traditionally been perceived stigmatically, at least in social terms. We speak of raucous behaviour as being fit only for a fish market, or typical of a fish vendor. The fisherman is usually represented as the stock representation of the uneducated, poor and socially backward. Indeed, one of the […]
