agriculture
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CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE CARIBBEAN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean needs to have more investment in agriculture if the sector is to match the increasing demand to produce more food in order to ensure food security for the Caribbean. According to Jose Fonseca, a senior policy maker with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CTA), while the Caribbean continues to…
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AGRICULTURE EXPERTS CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH JOURNALISTS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A major challenge facing the agriculture sector which needs to be addressed urgently is the lack of information from the sector to the public. To this end experts in agriculture from Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states have agreed that they must build relationship with journalists as a means of bridging the information divide.…
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REMARKS BY THE HONOURABLE ROBERT M. PERSAUD, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, GUYANA, ON THE OCCASION OF THE THIRTY-SECOND MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (COTED) (AGRICULTURE), 16-18 SEPTEMBER 2009, GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Guyana on the occasion of the 32nd Special meeting of the Agriculture COTED. I am saddened to learn that this may very well be the final Agricultural COTED for 2009, and indeed for quite some time. I am saddened because there seems to be so much that remains to be done…
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AGRICULTURE FOCUS OF THIRTY-SECOND SPECIAL COTED IN GEORGETOWN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirty-Second Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture opens on Friday 18 September, 2009 at the Le Meridien Pegasus, Georgetown, Guyana. COTED Officials began their meeting from Wednesday September 16, 2009 at the same location. High on the agenda are considerations for the establishment…
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REMARKS DELIVERED BY HONOURABLE ROBERT PERSAUD, MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR FORESTS, REPRESENTING H.E. BHARRAT JAGDEO, PRESIDENT OF GUYANA AND CHAIRMAN OF CARICOM, AT THE REGIONAL MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT, 14-15 SEPTEMBER 2009, CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA
Hon. Prime Minister Stephenson King, Lead Head for Sustainable Development Mr. Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM Ministers Negotiators: Permit me first to convey the regret of President Jagdeo, Chairman of CARICOM, for not being in a position to attend. Colleagues, we are at a critical milestone, on the road to a new ambitious climate change agreement that has the…
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AGRICULTURE FOCUS OF THIRTY-SECOND SPECIAL COTED IN GEORGETOWN
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Thirty-Second Special Meeting of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Agriculture opens on Friday 18 September, 2009 at the Le Meridien Pegasus, Georgetown, Guyana. COTED Officials began their meeting from Wednesday September 16, 2009 at the same location. High on the agenda are considerations for the establishment…
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Liliendaal Declaration On Agriculture And Food Security
We, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community at our Thirtieth Meeting in Liliendaal, Guyana, 2-5 July, 2009, affirm our commitment to the principles and objectives of the Caribbean Community as embodied in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy – 1. We recognize the multi-functional nature of agriculture as…
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PRESIDENT JAGDEO CALLS FOR MORE INCENTIVES FOR AGRICULTURE
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The two-day Public-Private Sector Consultation on agribusiness wrapped up in Georgetown Thursday with an acknowledgement by stakeholders that much more needed to be done to shape agriculture into a more viable sector to advance growth in the Region. On Thursday evening, His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana and Lead Head of Government with…
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ACT NOW AS A COORDINATED UNIT – AGRICULTURE STAKEHOLDERS URGED
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Stakeholders in the agriculture sector have been urged to act now to build alliances to promote agri-business development in the Region. At the opening of the Consultation on Public-Private Sector collaboration at the Pegasus Hotel on Wednesday morning, the Hon. Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture, Guyana, and His Excellency Edwin Carrington, Secretary-General of the…
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CARICOM SECRETARIAT THANKS REGIONAL AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT FORUM SPONSORS
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Two commercial banks which lent their support to the just-concluded Regional Agriculture Investment Forum were Tuesday 10 June 2008 lauded for their contribution toward making the event a success. Scotia Bank through its representative Ms Amanda St. Aubyn, Country Manager, and Republic Bank, through its representative Ms. Donna Roberts-Benjamin, Communication and Public Relations Officer,…
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