Guyana
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Developed countries criticised over failure to transfer technology
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana’s Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has criticised the world’s rich countries over their failure to transfer to developing nations the technology needed to fast track their development. Ramsammy said their failure has led to developing countries being unable to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 8. The MDGs are the world's time-bound and quantified targets…
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From farm to fork: improving nutrition in the Caribbean
GEORGETOWN, Guyana- Researchers from universities in Canada and the Caribbean will discuss improvements in the region's agriculture and nutrition during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA2013): Linking the Caribbean for Regional Food and Nutrition Security and Rural Development, to be held in Guyana, October 4-12, 2013. Since 2011, researchers from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago…
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Guyana could tap US$2.6M new FAO agri initiative
Georgetown, Guyana – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched a new joint project to help developing countries, particularly fragile states, manage public investments in small-scale agriculture more effectively. The UN food agencies will co-finance the US$2.6 million initiative focusing on countries where a lack of strong national governance means…
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Carib Lacks Agri Research
Georgetown, Guyana – The poor state of livestock and crop production in the Caribbean is due in large measure to the low priority given to agricultural research by regional governments, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana's minister of agriculture. During Friday's opening of the 2013 Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Ramsammy said that the plan to make the Caribbean hunger-free by…
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CCJ’S HISTORIC RULING
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – IT WHAT could well be viewed as a pleasant coincidence, the Governments of Guyana and Barbados on Friday agreed on a joint declaration about a coming formal accord on improved immigration arrangements between the two CARICOM countries. This initiative, resulting from a meeting of the Guyana-Barbados Joint Commission, coincided with a landmark judgement the same day by…
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Myrie ruling seen as boosting hassle-free travel in Caricom
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – A landmark decision by the top regional court in a case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Barbadian Government is being seen as paving the way for freer movement in Caricom for Guyanese and other nationalities. On Friday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) tossed aside a series of defences thrown up by Bridgetown and awarded…
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Government backs establishment of SWAT Unit
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has given the green light for the establishment of a SWAT Unit within the Guyana Police Force (GPF) A statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs noted that with a SWAT Unit, the GPF would be better placed to make specialised interventions, thereby, ensuring law and order is maintained, and prospective threats are…
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‘Reinventing the CSME’
CSME’ GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Professor Norman Girvan, in an address entitled, ‘Reinventing the CSME,’ to the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) in Barbados, last Friday, assessed the crisis in the regional economic integration process, focusing on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and proposed a possible way out. CARICOM’s problems have already been subject to much analysis; no…
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Closing the skies
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The news that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has denied permission to Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) and Fly Jamaica (FJ) to fly directly from Guyana to New York is very disturbing. According to the criteria announced by the DOT, the airlines would have had to show “a need for the service, that there would be a…
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