As the demand across the Caribbean grows for bottled coconut water, the Executive Director of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Barton Clarke says the major challenge would be sufficient planting material. “The major constraint is going to be adequate amount of appropriate planting material given that we have to treat with three or four major international pests and ...

Caribbean health and education experts have lamented the impact of free trade on the consumption of certain foods and beverages that are badly affecting the health of the region’s children. Senior Medical Officer of Grenada’s Ministry of Health, Dr Francis Martin said the reality is that many Caribbean schools are cash-strapped and so they turn to sponsors to support sporting ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall The United States went from being at one time, and for a long time, the largest exporter of oil in the world, to a net exporter.  From the 1970s forward it, along with large parts of the rest of the world, was held hostage through embargoes, supply squeezes, geopolitical postures, foreign policy contentiousness, ...

Two men appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan and were jointly charged for two counts of murder at North West District. The first allegation against Roberto Miggins and Quasi Benjamin is that between October 12 and 13, 2016, at Ten Mile Backdam, they murdered Mario Pozzer. The second charge reads that the two allegedly murdered Hilton ‘Hilary’ Smith on ...

Cabinet meetings are now being held at the headquarters of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) because it provides adequate logistics and security, while urgent repairs continue at the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) complex on Vlissengen Road, government said in a statement. “After consideration of a number of options it was found that the vast majority of these venues did not ...

The two accused, in the murder of Mahaicony businesswoman Bibi Shairoon Nesha Ali, appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrate Court to answer to the charge. It is alleged that between October 15 and 17, 2016, at Lot 4 Novar Mahaicony, Davanand Rampersaud and a 14-year-old accomplice murdered Ali, during the course of a robbery. The two were not required to plead ...

Britain’s Prince Harry is due to visit Guyana from December 3 to 4 during which time he would visit the hinterland and participate in several activities in Georgetown to coincide with the 50th Independence Anniversary of this former British colony. “I am happy that we are now able to confirm the dates of Prince Harry’s visit at the start of ...

The Port Manager of the Antigua Port, Darwin Telemaque on Tuesday recommended that Trinidad become a regional shipping hub to help bring down transportation costs and reduce reliance on Miami. “If you start thinking about what’s Miami… Trinidad has more potential than Miami because they make things. Miami does nothing. They just receive things and distribute so we have an ...

A top official of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday lamented the wastage of agricultural produce at Bourda Market in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown to hammer home the point that poor transportation continues to be a major problem facing the Caribbean’s agricultural sector. “It hurts my heart to see good tropical fruit from Guyana rotting,” acting sub-regional FAO Coordinator, ...

A female prison officer, who was allegedly caught smuggling marijuana inside the New Amsterdam Prison, is expected to be charged with being in possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. With the likelihood of her being charged and possibly convicted, she stands to lose 14 years of service to that penal institution Investigators were told that at about 11:30 ...