Mustapha commits to assisting woman who lost home to fire
Earlier today, Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, visited Ms. Shenieza Yussuf, who recently lost her home in a devastating fire at Crabwood Creek on Thursday.
During...
Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board gets new building
The Ministry of Agriculture’s Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board (PTCCB) commissioned a new administrative building at Mon Repos on Thursday, October 24, 2024.
The...
Forestry production remained under 400,000m3 for three consecutive years
While the deforestation rates in Guyana post-2015 remain the lowest in 9 years, forestry production reflects the total opposite. In fact, yields during 2015...
SBM, local partners launch greenhouse project to cut use of imported produce on Guyana’s...
SBM Offshore, in collaboration with local catering company, Newrest Guyana, and Plympton Farms, a global source for authentic Caribbean vegetables, recently commissioned a massive...
We must be able to feed ourselves before attempting to feed the Caribbean –...
While Guyana aspires to become the food basket of the Caribbean, its people are still tussling with the high cost of living and the...
Guyana earns over $900M for non-traditional exports in first half of 2024 -Agri. Minister
Guyana's agricultural sector is booming, with non-traditional exports exceeding $919 million in the first half of 2024.
This represents a 12.7 per cent increase, with...
Eddoe, sweet potato scarce and expensive -Vendors tell Pres. Ali
At the crack of dawn on Wednesday, President Dr. Irfaan Ali made an impromptu visit to the Bourda Market to “see wuh going on,”...
GAWU wants pay increase for sugar workers to be retroactive to January 2019
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wants the agreed upon pay increases for sugar workers to be retroactive to January 1, 2019...
“We will not walk away from sugar” – Ali tells GAWU
President Dr Irfaan Ali affirmed on Wednesday that his government will not “walk away from sugar” and the thousands of workers who are a...
Blairmont Estate shut down as workers protest GuySuCo pay rise
Operations at the Blairmont Sugar Estate came to a standstill today after workers took protest action to express their views about the Guyana Sugar...
