Small rice farmers will be provided drone services by the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) to assist them in increasing and improving the quality of the grain, through assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and China, officials said Tuesday. Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha said the drone service would be provided to the farmers free of cost to aid ...

More than one year after Guyana passed the Industrial Hemp Act, players in the infant sector are hopeful that a licensing board would soon be appointed to regulate the industry and make way for large-scale commercial cultivation. The Industrial Hemp Bill was approved by the National Assembly on August 8, 2022 and signed into law on September 11, 2022. High-level ...

Guyana is prepared to test for the Oropouche virus (OROV) which the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) last weekend sounded an alert about, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Monday. He said the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) has the reagents to test for the virus which can be spread by gnats and mosquitoes. “If people present with signs and symptoms ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams It was a few dreadful months ago that Guyana, one of the world’s recently minted petro-states, was desperately scrambling to mobilize the international community to avert war with Venezuela. The conflict heightened the risk of instability in the Caribbean and Latin America over a decades-old border controversy between two former colonies, squabbling over territory. When ...

by Alexandra Panzarelli In 1989, excluded Venezuelans took to the streets to condemn a political class that was leaving them behind. It was a bloody encounter between the people and the repressive state that marked a deep fracture with representative democracy in Venezuela. This moment highlighted the consequences of social exclusion and marginalization, revealing a political class deaf to the ...

Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I couldn’t help but notice how the WPA literally inserted itself between the PNC and AFC at the Buxton line-top on Emancipation Day. While the photographer who took the shot of Norton and Hughes with the WPA must be given credit, one must wonder why these parties have to rely on the weakest chain in ...

by GHK Lall The battlelines are drawn, and they have all that is ominous about them. Russia, China, and Persia (Iran) came out of the blocks first. The Venezuelan election was transparent, the man won another term of office. Fair and square. Free and fair and transparent. Normally, it would be the end of the matter, except that the US ...

by GHK Lall August 2nd marked four years of PPP governance. Four years of PPP government-era financial crimes, indigenous rights violations, media rights violations, citizen rights violation. Obscenity and putridity from the PPP governance cesspit. On August 2, 2020, when President Ali swore his oath, I hoped for the dawning of a new day in Guyana. On the fourth anniversary ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton is recommending that Guyanese earning less than estimated GY$200,000 (estimated US$938) monthly should not pay income tax and he promised that if elected next year policies would be put in place to combat poverty rather than merely delivering cash grants. He said “with all the money they got” people earning ...

Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes on Wednesday night – African Emancipation eve – said he and Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton were not vying against each other. “Brothers and sisters, I want to leave you with a message. There is no competition between Aubrey and I. None! You can take that ...