Manufacturers reaching out to overseas investors
The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has been reaching out to several countries in an effort to attract investors and capital, its President, Clinton Williams, says and he also pointed to a range of problems hampering businesses. With the manufacturing sector showing flat growth for the first half of the year while the services [...]
Repsol offshore well to be deepest in region
The exploratory ‘Jaguar 1’ oil well to be drilled offshore Guyana next year will be the deepest ever drilled in the region, at a depth of four miles, officials of Spanish oil giant, Repsol said as the company formally opened its Duke Street office here last evening. “Jaguar 1 has been approved to drill to [...]
Public accounts head berates gov’t over procurement commission
Volda Lawrence: `There are sinister movements in terms of contracts because the Auditor General staff went to a particular institution: couldn’t find a wall, couldn’t find windows, couldn’t find grill work but then after he went back subsequently, after they came before PAC, the wall appeared, the windows appeared, the grill work appeared. Let us [...]
Deforestation rate triples over past year
Guyana’s deforestation rate tripled over the past year and was calculated at 0.06%, compared to the average deforestation rate of 0.02% since 1990 and given recent trends it may continue to rise, according to a new report prepared under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement. The Guyana REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification System (MRVS), Interim Measures [...]
PC basks in top school glow
Celebrating 25 years of existence, President’s College basked in the glow of being the number one school in the country as it held its 20th graduation exercise yesterday. “The College is continuing to deliver quality education to our students despite the many challenges we face”, Principal Yvonette Chichester said. “We have once again demonstrated that [...]
It’s Ramjattan and Holder
Khemraj Ramjattan was yesterday ratified as the Presidential Candidate for the Alliance For Change (AFC) with co-founder Sheila Holder selected as the Prime Ministerial candidate after Leader, Raphael Trotman declined
Karawab
Nothing stirs within the thatched houses that occasionally crack the forested monotony along the upper Pomeroon River. Even the cries of the few birds who brave the humidity of the afternoon seem wilted. “Sometimes people say we are behind God back,” says a teacher at the Ulele Primary School. In the verdant, hilly community, where [...]
BK plugs rip-rap instead of wave wall
– European-funded work 31% completed As construction giant, BK International proceeds with multi-billion dollar sea defence work it has asked the authorities to review some projects where the designs are for mass concrete seawalls, arguing that the rip-rap design would be better. BK, under the Ninth European Development Fund (EDF) Sea Defence Pro-gramme, is currently [...]
Love keeps aging Pomeroon farmers on land but problems abound
-see great need for cannery, depot ‘We nah get market… We nah getting price’ (This is the ninth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) In his laden citrus grove in the Pomeroon, Rudolph Gobin fixes a shirt on a stick and clangs a crude bell. To scare away parrots, he explained, [...]
$89M Parika pack house underutilized
- despite focus on stepped up farming, exports (This is the eighth part in a series on the Grow More Food campaign) Many days the Parika Pack House is silent with little activity inside the vast building. At times though, particularly in the latter part of the week, trucks roll in and persons clean and [...]
Bandits shoot Kaneville couple, terrorise family
Bandits early yesterday shot a young couple during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara and also terrorized other members of the family, assaulting them and later in the day, in phone calls, threatened to return. In the terrifying ordeal, which lasted about ten minutes, the bandits, one of whom was armed with a handgun, [...]
Region looks to new ‘practical’ food and nutrition policy
`These initiatives have had limited, if any, success, however, because they have been prepared and executed in isolation from other policies. Actions taken have thus been sparse, diffuse… and uncoordinated. Moreover, few of them have been translated into operational instruments with regional core funding for concrete action programmes specifically addressing the unifying and cross-cutting synergistic [...]
Fisherman drowns looting grounded boat
- over $20M in Banks DIH cargo stolen West Demerara residents looted the grounded vessel Davie 11 on Sunday night and an Uitvlugt fisherman drowned as he moved between the vessel and the seawall. Police are investigating the death of Franklyn Andries, 36, of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD). According to reports, he was among [...]
Banks DIH boat beached at Stewartville shore after leaks
-harrowing experience for crew A boat transporting Banks DIH products to the Essequibo Coast sprung leaks and had to be grounded at the Stewartville, West Coast Demerara shore late Saturday night. There were no injuries but it was a harrowing experience on a dark night with high waves, one crewman, Dexroy Murray said. Up to [...]
More action, less talk urged on regional food security
-as review of proposed policy begins A meeting to review a regional plan to ensure food and nutrition security opened here yesterday with officials emphasizing that it should not be another “talk-shop” ”We are taking a holistic approach. It’s not just increasing food production for food security…it has the interest of many different sectors,” Assistant [...]