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  • Jamaica and Guyana leaders to meet to resolve rice dispute 13 May 2008 11:32 GMT
    ... By Kevin Lindon Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent Email: GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo ... the agenda for the COTED Meeting on Agriculture in Guyana later this month. That meeting ...

  • St Lucia joins regional efforts to protect Caribbean Sea from pollution 13 May 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... sources being sewage and run-off from poor agricultural practices and land use. “This has direct ... the 17th and 18th of April in Guyana where Ministers of Environment reaffirmed the importance of ...

  • COMMENTARY: Media Freedom and Political Action 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... Caribbean Festival of Creative Arts (CARIFESTA) in Guyana is being threatened by organised political groups ... by the riches of vast and fertile agricultural lands; the wealth of gold, diamonds and ... Undoubtedly, there is an overwhelming desire by Guyanese people of all walks of life for ...

  • COMMENTARY: Cuba's Medical Diplomacy: A Winner 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... savage hurricanes causing considerable damage to its agriculture and infrastructure, it continued to provide help ... at the Cheddie Jagan International Airport in Guyana. Knowing that there were no scheduled flights between ...

  • COMMENTARY: Caribbean Companies Should Gird Up Their Loins 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... overcome all its ambiguities. The government of Guyana has indicated that it will inaugurate a consultation ... these products compete with production from local farmers and manufacturers, and, given the economies of ...

  • COMMENTARY: South-East Asia and the Caribbean Joint Ventures: A Not Impossible Dream 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... raised recently by the Indonesian Ambassador to Guyana and Suriname, Suprijanto Muhadi. It was not the ... it could include industrialisation in fisheries and agriculture to help take Caribbean fishermen and farmers to a new level of production. Thailand, ...

  • COMMENTARY: Caribbean Countries Should Be Compensated for Global Warming 13 May 2008 10:51 GMT
    ... including mainland territories such as Belize and Guyana, are already witnessing coastal flooding and erosion, saline ... non-tourism business. Heavy rains and flooding affect agricultural production in the small islands and in ... of transportation in critical areas such as forestry. What all this adds up to is ...

  • COMMENTARY: Caribbean Leaders Losing Sight of the Ball: Not Focussing on the Real Game 13 May 2008 10:50 GMT
    ... members that include Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, and Suriname. The objective of the game ... loss of preferences in traditional markets for agricultural production particularly. Some of them have also ...

  • The Don Imuses of the Greens 13 May 2008 04:33 GMT
    ... the organophosphate acts locally and only kills farm workers, and most of them are Mexicans and ... well at saving Third World lives. “In Guyana, within almost two years, it had almost eliminated ...

  • Venezuelan Steel Nationalisation Marks "New Revolution Within Revolution" 13 May 2008 00:19 GMT
    ... and the subsequent takeover of 32 large farms. These moves are part of government efforts to ... raised by the workers and people of Guyana (and won by the colossal struggle of the ...

  • Significant Others 13 May 2008 00:08 GMT
    ... more important — a businessman in Georgetown Guyana, who funds jihadists on their missions and ... that he had holed up with wealthy Guyanese businessman Farouk Razac. Razac had been in and ... use code language. JFK becomes “The Chicken Farm” — classic. They talked to too many ...

  • President Bush Attends Council of the Americas 12 May 2008 22:57 GMT
    ... to assist the countries of El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru. Let me talk ... States is providing assistance to nearly 1,300 farmers so they can develop their farmland and ... tariffs of up to 35 percent for non-agricultural goods, and much higher for many agricultural ...

  • Food crisis crosses globe 12 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... Campesino Federation, a lobbying group for small farmers that has been active lately in protests ... increase, in the 1970s, was followed by agricultural advances known as the "green revolution" that ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. Guyana: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow them ...

  • Responses to food crisis 12 May 2008 04:27 GMT
    ... VIETNAM, NEPAL: Restrict rice exports. * BANGLADESH: Farmers demand high-yielding varieties of seeds, cheaper fertilizers, insecticides and diesel, and soft loans for ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. * GUYANA: President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that 600,000 packages of ...

  • Jamaica, Guyana leaders seek to resolve trade dispute over rice supply 11 May 2008 20:26 GMT
    ... What a train can tell you about Japan's struggle to ... for markets in the week ahead. U.S. farmers busy planting the new corn crop are ...

  • Behind the food riots: a debate on how best to farm 11 May 2008 10:49 GMT
    ... no poster boy for the new world agricultural order, in which peasants are supposed to ... peasants are supposed to leave their unproductive farms and strive for middle-class prosperity while food ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. — GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow them ...

  • COUNTRIES ACT TO PREVENT UNREST 11 May 2008 07:45 GMT
    ... a crackdown on hoarders and speculators. Bangladesh: Farmers demand high-yielding varieties of seeds, cheaper fertilizers, insecticides and diesel, and soft loans for ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. Guyana: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow them ...

  • Changes in Cuba? 11 May 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on food insecurity in the ... of the 2015 World Food Summit: Cuba, Guyana and Peru. According to UNESCO, currently one out ...

  • Fixing Food 11 May 2008 06:55 GMT
    ... exports. • BANGLADESH: To guarantee good harvests, farmers demand high-yielding varieties of seeds, cheaper fertilizers, insecticides and diesel, and soft loans for ... to poor parts of Santo Domingo. -- GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow them ...

  • Changes in Cuba> 11 May 2008 05:56 GMT
    ... report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on food insecurity in the ... of the 2015 World Food Summit: Cuba, Guyana and Peru. According to UNESCO, currently one out ...

  • A look at responses to food crisis 10 May 2008 18:55 GMT
    ... a crackdown on hoarders and speculators. BANGLADESH: Farmers demand high-yielding varieties of seeds, cheaper fertilizers, insecticides and diesel, and soft loans for ... food to poor parts of Santo Domingo. GUYANA: Government gives seeds to villagers to sow them ...

  • Soaring fuel costs threaten to shut down Suriname fisheries 10 May 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... By Ivan Cairo Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent Email: ... US$35 million from fishery exports. According to Agriculture Minister Kermechend Raghoebarsing, for some time now ... for a crackdown on illegal fishing by Guyanese and Venezuelan ...

  • Hijacking, Piracy Bill withdrawn in Guyana 10 May 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... are hijacked or otherwise attacked, the passenger boats crossing rivers are robbed or the fishing boats fishing in the rivers and territorial waters of Guyana are looted by armed robbers or pirates. The government believes that the provisions of the ...

  • Get down with the kids ... 9 May 2008 23:53 GMT
    ... UK); teens (13-15-year-olds) £60; under-13s free, Hop Farm Festival July 6, Hop Farm, near Paddock Wood, ... Featuring: Chic (US), Squeeze (UK), Eddy Grant (Guyana), Toumani Diabate (Mali), Bedouin Jerry Can Band (Egypt) ...


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