Last Updated on Monday, 13 October 2014, 0:04 by GxMedia Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the dreaded Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr. Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Consultant. Speaking at a Continued Medical Education (CME) session this morning at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, Dr. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 12 October 2014, 18:15 by GxMedia Wary of fruitless negotiations, staff and pensioners of the cash-strapped Caribbean Agricultural Research Institute (CARDI) have complained bitterly about a  12-year old “wage freeze”, late payment of salaries and pensions, and increased workloads. The formal complaint was lodged to the just concluded Board of Governors meeting in Suriname that coincided ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 October 2014, 21:48 by GxMedia The World Bank has agreed to provide US$21 million to help Guyana  increase secondary school enrolment and improve mathematics teaching as well as well as reduce flooding on the East Coast Demerara, the Finance Ministry said Saturday. The agreement signed in Washington this week by Minister Singh with Sophie Sirtaine, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 October 2014, 2:02 by GxMedia Jamaica’s Agriculture Minister, Derrick Kellier on Friday believed that privatization is the key to a successful sugar industry, drawing on the lessons of his country that has sold out the fields and factories to Chinese investors. Kellier, who was in Suriname for the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA) and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 October 2014, 21:27 by GxMedia  The new boss of the cash-strapped Caribbean Agricultural Research Development Institute (CARDI) is Barbadian, Barton Clarke. Outgoing Executive Director, Dr. Arlington Chesney made the announcement on the sidelines of the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA 2014) that wrapped up in Suriname on Friday. Clarke’s appointment was ratified by the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 October 2014, 20:41 by GxMedia The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Caribbean Coordinator, Dr. John “Deep” Forde has urged international organizations to coordinate their assistance to Haiti whose agricultural sector is showing good prospects. His call was issued at a symposium-“Haiti’s Agri food systems and Building Regional Synergies”– at the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 October 2014, 20:08 by GxMedia And the winner is… Node420, from Jamaica. The team’s ICT application, also called Node420, offers real-time weather analysis and automatic yield forecasts for farmers. The AgriHack Talent Caribbean contest, organised by CTA and partners, came to a close during the 13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture, held this week in Paramaribo, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 10 October 2014, 18:08 by GxMedia Guyana’s National Agricultural, Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) will be joining hands with the Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS) to fight the Black Sigatoka disease that has already taken its toll on banana and plantain cultivations across the Caribbean, officials said Friday. NAREI’s involvement would be done through ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 October 2014, 16:48 by GxMedia PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Oct 9 — The head of a regional network of small farmers has expressed disappointment with the region’s response to the International Year of Family Farming. The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, in an effort to highlight the potential family farmers have ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 9 October 2014, 16:42 by GxMedia by Kenton Chance PARAMARIBO, Suriname — Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research Institute (CARDI), Dr. Arlington Chesney has confirmed that he will leave the institute by the end of this year. “I think I should leave. When I joined CARDI, I said I would come for three years, and ...