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The twin factors of climate change and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on labour loss and its implications for the agricultural sector are among the primary factors that now bring the issue of food security in the Caribbean into ever sharper focus.

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It would be difficult to find anywhere across the country a group of farmers and agro processors more resolute, more determined, than the members of the Mocha Arcadia Multipurpose Agriculture Co-operative Society (MAMPA).   

This week’s disclosure through a Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) media release that the Business Support Organization (BSO) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Guyana (UG) aimed at (as the release put it) “bridging the gap between industry and academia,” marks, seemingly, yet another initiative to establish the kinds of links between the two institutions which ought to have been in place long ago and which, in their scarcity appears to reflect a certain across-the-board indifference on both sides to the importance of a collaborative effort that is important to the country’s development.

With agro-processing, over the past two decades, having gradually worked its way towards becoming one of the fastest-growing generators of employment in Guyana, the recent announcement that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is partnering with a US/Guyana initiative to advance the technology base of the agro-processing industry here ought to attract significant interest among local agro-processors.

Widely regarded as a faithful but, frequently, unreliable servant of regional air travel, Caribbean Airlines, in a recent statement, is seeking to provide the region with an undertaking that it will not only recover from its catastrophic revenue losses arising primarily out of the impact of Covid-19 and its repercussions for regional air travel, but also that the carrier will realise that undertaking with no reduction in the quality of its service to the region.

One of the more challenging consequences of the flooding that attended the recent heavy rainfall was the need for cattle farmers to move their livestock to higher ground. 

The World Bank is alerting the Caribbean and Latin America to the fact that the ensuing Covid-19 pandemic is likely to significantly increase the size of the poverty footprint on the region than that which had obtained prior to its advent.

With the economic challenges arising out of the advent of the coronavirus pandemic still some distance away from being overcome, the Biden administration is reportedly in the process of formulating plans for a Caribbean Region Trade Mission and Business Conference in October.

Indigenous people living on the frontline of climate change could offer potentially ground-breaking insight into biodiversity protection and sustainability, but they urgently need help to withstand a growing number of threats to their way of life, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Friday.

International oil companies have laid out detailed plans to drive down carbon emissions.

The French oil exploration and production company Total Energies is celebrating its enhanced reputation in the field of oil prospecting after having collaborated with Qatar Petroleum to clinch a contract for a major drilling operation offshore Suriname.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Countries developing new oil, gas and coal projects should make sure they come with technology that can reduce the emissions to zero, John Kerry, the U.S.

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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 921’s trading results showed consideration of $59,934,425 from 239,487 shares traded in 31 transactions as compared to session 920’s trading results which showed consideration of $57,632,338 from 719,635 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Last Tuesday’s media release issued by the Guyana Manufacturers’ & Services Associaion (GMSA) on the subject of the proliferation of illegal “food, drugs and cosmetics” into Guyana goes to the heart of a considerable challenge which the country has had to face over many years.

With relations between Guyana and Suriname experiencing a unique moment in the history of the two South American republics, the authorities in the respective capitals, Georgetown and Paramaribo, would, one feels, be decidedly reluctant to break a lance over an issue that has remained a bone of contention between the two countries.