GEORGETOWN, Guyana- Researchers from universities in Canada and the Caribbean will discuss improvements in the region's agriculture and nutrition during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA2013): Linking the Caribbean for Regional Food and Nutrition Security and Rural Development, to be held in Guyana, October 4-12, 2013.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - It is of significance and relevance to note that even before last Friday’s historic decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in the case involving Barbados and the Jamaican Shanique Myrie was publicly made known, the foreign affairs ministers of this country and Guyana had already initiated a plan of action to improve freedom of movement relations between the two CARICOM partner states.
Georgetown, Guyana - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have launched a new joint project to help developing countries, particularly fragile states, manage public investments in small-scale agriculture more effectively.
The UN food agencies will co-finance the US$2.6 million initiative focusing on countries where a lack of strong national governance means development projects can face serious challenges in delivering results.
Georgetown, Guyana - The poor state of livestock and crop production in the Caribbean is due in large measure to the low priority given to agricultural research by regional governments, according to Dr Leslie Ramsammy, Guyana's minister of agriculture.
During Friday's opening of the 2013 Caribbean Week of Agriculture, Ramsammy said that the plan to make the Caribbean hunger-free by 2025 was unrealistic in light of the absence of a regional research agenda and that there was no evidence that things were likely to change anytime soon.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - IT WHAT could well be viewed as a pleasant coincidence, the Governments
of Guyana and Barbados on Friday agreed on a joint declaration about a coming formal accord on improved immigration arrangements between the two CARICOM countries.
This initiative, resulting from a meeting of the Guyana-Barbados Joint Commission, coincided with a landmark judgement the same day by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A landmark decision by the top regional court in a case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Barbadian Government is being seen as paving the way for freer movement in Caricom for Guyanese and other nationalities.
On Friday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) tossed aside a series of defences thrown up by Bridgetown and awarded Myrie non-pecuniary damages for the violation of her right to free movement within the Caribbean Community as enshrined in a 2007 decision by the regional body.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government has given the green light for the establishment of a SWAT Unit within the Guyana Police Force (GPF)
A statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs noted that with a SWAT Unit, the GPF would be better placed to make specialised interventions, thereby, ensuring law and order is maintained, and prospective threats are neutralised.
The government said it had already engaged the services of ‘The Emergence Group’ (TEG), a Washington-based consultancy firm, to obtain the requisite assistance in rolling out this initiative.
CSME’ GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Professor Norman Girvan, in an address entitled, ‘Reinventing the CSME,’ to the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) in Barbados, last Friday, assessed the crisis in the regional economic integration process, focusing on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and proposed a possible way out.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The news that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has denied permission to Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) and Fly Jamaica (FJ) to fly directly from Guyana to New York is very disturbing. According to the criteria announced by the DOT, the airlines would have had to show “a need for the service, that there would be a negligible impact on U.S. flag carriers, and the proposed operation is limited in scope” – all of the foregoing operationalised within the overarching goal of serving the U.S. “public interest”.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - In a recent editorial entitled, ‘Obama, Syria and a world rearranging itself,’ we suggested in focusing on events in the Middle East, that changes were taking place in countries’ perceptions of each other that were inducing the major powers, and specifically the United States, to relook at their relations to each other.