Agriculture
Guyanese manufacturers say Plantation white sugar unacceptable; reject call for 40% tax on refined sugar
The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association Limited (GMSA) on Monday rejected calls by a Belizean producer of Plantation white, or...
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Barbados wants to rear Blackbelly sheep in Guyana, Suriname
Reproduced from Barbados Today Barbados Blackbelly Sheep Government is exploring the possibility of rearing Barbados Blackbelly sheep in CARICOM’s two...
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Investors walking away from “scrap iron” sugar estates -Finance Minister
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan says investors have been walking away from buying any of the four shuttered sugar estates, an...
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GuySuCo denies withholding information from NICIL on spending GYD$30 billion
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on Tuesday denied accusations that it has not been accounting for more than GYD$7 billion...
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GuySuCo not showing how GYD$30 billion bond being spent; bondholders “unhappy”- NCIL
NICIL headquarters. The National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) on Monday said holders of a GYD$30 billion bond to...
Read moreDetailsRose Hall estate may be sold to Ghana-India-Guyana consortium; GuySuCo fails on vital information to NICIL
The Rose Hall Estate factory. An Indian-Ghanaian-Guyanese consortium is likely to buy out the Rose Hall sugar estate, the first...
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Gov’t moving ahead with sale of closed sugar estate lands – Harmon
Aerial view of the Skeldon Sugar Factory. Government was preparing to sell off huge swathes of land owned by the...
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Trinidad bans raw and cooked poultry meat from Guyana
Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Agriculture, Clarence Rambharat Minister of Agriculture Clarence Rambharat has advised that raw and cooked poultry...
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Oil and gas sector can boost agriculture; fishing will face greatest competition – FAO
FAO's Assistant Director-General for Latin America and the Caribbean, Dr. Julio Berdegué and FAO Representative in Guyana, Dr. Gillian Smith....
Read moreDetailsGuyana part of regional study on substituting refined sugar with “plantation white”
Director of Projects at CDB, Daniel Best Guyana is among four sugar-producing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member nations that will be...
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