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GT to get new pumps as Gov’t takes over main city drainage
Georgetown will get three new pumps being procured by the Ministry of Agriculture to better manage the city’s drainage.
Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder Tuesday announced that the Government had decided to take over management of the…
Gov’t, DDL partner to develop dairy, juice production
The Government of Guyana and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) have agreed to examine the implementation of a private/public partnership to develop the local dairy industry to provide for milk and dairy products, a joint press release…
President meets with protesting sugar workers, promises severance by year-end
Over $7 billion in supplementary funding will be sourced next week, some of which will be used to make the outstanding severance payments to sugar workers who were retrenched last year.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan will table Finance…
100 acres of corn to be harvested at Ebini
New Frontier (NF) Agriculture, today announced that its farm at Ebini is set to harvest it’s a test crop, of approximately 100 acres of corn.
The success of this crop, planted in July, paves the way for the possibility of planting of two…
GuySuCo on track to achieve 2018 second crop production target
Despite several challenges following the changes in the industry, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is on track to achieve its second crop production target of 68,045 tonnes of sugar.
GuySuCo is now made up of only three estates at…
14 investors eye sugar estates
Approximately 14 investors have met with officials on the privatisation of the three sugar estates, raising concerns about taxation, work permits, and the country’s energy policy.
The potential bidders hail from Trinidad, Canada and…
‘Stop infighting and outfighting’- Jordan on GuySuCo/NICIL fiasco
As the clash between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL)- which took over some of the Corporation’s assets - deepens, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has called for…
Slow TT process holds up Guyana’s honey exports – Agri. Minister
Even as the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago committed to changing its laws to allow the transshipment of Guyana’s honey in its waters, Guyana’s Minister of Agriculture says the process is taking too long.
Guyana is unable to…
Brazilian army to commence drilling interior wells next month
The drilling of eight Wells in Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) through a collaboration between the Governments of Guyana and Brazil will commence on October 4.
Reporting on the second working group meeting held at the Civil…
Sugar workers miraculously escape death at Uitvlugt Estate
By Neil Marks
Sugar workers who were on duty Saturday at the Uitvlugt Estate, West Coast Demerara miraculously escaped death when giant knives used as part of the production process were dislocated and sent flying at a rapid rate.
The…
