One of the predictable developments that appears to have derived from the recently concluded Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was the official ‘anointing’ of President Irfaan Ali as the ‘lead’ CARICOM Head on the issue of regional food security. This, presumably, means that he will have a role […]
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His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali received high commendations by CARICOM Heads, on Wednesday, for his aggressive approach towards reducing the regional food import bill, and creating opportunities to spur further investments within Caribbean nations. Barbados’ Prime Minister, Hon. Mia Mottley said Dr. Ali, who leads the agriculture food agenda in CARICOM, was able to […]
The outcomes of the just concluded United Nations-organised conference in Nairobi, Kenya on an internationally binding agreement designed to rein in what is now globally regarded as a crisis resulting from the unstoppable proliferation of plastics and the attendant environmental consequences may well have missed the attention of those who may have opted for monitoring […]
A roughly five-mile drive out of Lethem will get you to St Ignatius. Close to St Ignatius sits a conspicuous strip of sand, in the middle of the Takutu River which separates Guyana from Brazil. It is named Ariwa Beach and it is a microcosm of Guyana’s potential for the creation of an interior-based tourism […]
‘Teacher Sharon’, Kumawattie Ramkoomar Isurdeen, is a quiet, unassuming young woman who serves as Head of the Department of Agriculture Science at Cummings Lodge Secondary School and who believes that the drive to enhance her charges’ enthusiasm for the discipline has to be designed to take them beyond seeing it as just another subject to add […]
This week’s Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) afforded regional leaders yet another opportunity to set aside lengthy presentations and instead, make a focussed effort to arrive at implementable solutions to some of the long-standing challenges that continue to confront the region. None of these issues can be more […]
Back in November last year the government announced that it had created a “working committee” to address the issue of putting in place arrangements for the training of Guyanese in tourism–related disciplines. Here, one assumes, that this was an indication that the present political administration was seeking to return tourism somewhere close to the sectorial […]
Aims: · To leverage the extractive value chain to generate sustained and inclusive growth through economic diversification and employment opportunities. · To generate opportunities for regional integration and international trade and gradually reduce countries’ dependence on external aid. The effectiveness of these measures depends on early engagement and collaboration among government, extractive industry companies, and communities. […]
Seemingly indifferent to the fast expanding global environmental lobby that targets pushing back the production of plastics, international oil companies are reportedly positioning themselves to invest a mammoth US$500 billion in new petrochemical plants to increase production of the commodity. The reported move by the oil companies would appear to suggest that they are confident that […]
It is not particularly difficult to see why the costs associated with the processes of recovery and post-recovery movement and storage of crude oil is such an astronomically costly exercise. What, all too frequently, are the devastating effects of oil spills, makes clear just why oil companies ‘shell out’ astronomical sums of money to optimise […]