Opinion

Economics of trees

At a symposium to mark the International Year of Forests earlier this week at the International Convention Centre, Liliendaal, President Bharrat Jagdeo boasted that Guyana has led the way in developing what he called the “economics of trees”, referring of course to the Low Carbon Development Strategy and its potential for raking in big bucks for the preservation of trees to be used in the country’s development.

EU moving forward in the hemisphere

Recent signings by the European Union of trade and economic agreements with countries in the Hemisphere, including the states of Central America in our Caribbean Basin, indicate the EU’s continuing determination to extend their formal frameworks of economic relations beyond the recently independent states of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

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