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Several young people saw the Caribbean Week of Agriculture’s second film competition as an opportunity to pursue their dreams while also encouraging their peers to seize the moment. The competition, which attracted over 20 entries from around the region, had as its theme “Adding Value to Local Foods”, and invited interpretation of the theme using film and video, including animation, ...

Suriname is preparing to help the rest of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) fight the dreaded Back Sigatoka disease that can wipe out plantain and banana farms, a senior regional official said Wednesday. That disease was recently found in several parts of Guyana, but it now appears to be under control after that country’s National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute ...

A prison officer was Wednesday jailed after he was convicted for trafficking in marijuana at the Georgetown Prison. Akeem Vyphuis was caught with 279 grammes of marijuana on July 14, 2014 at the Camp Street-based jail. City Magistrate, Judy Latchman sentenced him to 56 months imprisonment after considering a number of factors. They included the amount of the narcotic, he ...

by Panoscope- Panos Caribbean Paramaribo, Suriname. October 8, 2014. Food and Agriculture Organisation expert, Dr John R Deep Ford, is urging increased attention, investment and policy interventions to improve the economic capacity of family farmers in the Caribbean who he says have largely been neglected by policymakers. ‘This is the International Year of Family Farming – a year to focus ...

The Netherlands –based Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) on Wednesday signaled its willingness to review the success of the annual Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA). Executive Director of the CTA, Michael Hailu said his organization would possibly conduct the CWA assessment, following concerns by Dominica’s Minister of Agriculture Matthew Walter at a meeting of the Agriculture Alliance ...

Policemen and women will now be able to see where you are in several part of Georgetown and its environs because they are being given real-time access to surveillance camera feeds, government announced on Wednesday. Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said the decision was made by the Defence Board. Authorities have also identified 10 additional sites at which 40 more ...

Vehicles traversing the Mackenzie- Linden Bridge will soon have to pay more to cross that small but important artery to many parts of Guyana’s interior, government announced on Wednesday. The new rates have not yet been provided. Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon told a news conference that the new toll structure would see the bridge yielding  about GUY$8 to GUY$10 ...

A Cuban engineer, who presented a Cuban passport with a fake work permit to immigration officers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) was fined GUY$10,000. He is 29-year old Johnny Maraso who pleaded guilty to the offences when the charges of uttering a forged document and conspiracy to commit a felony were read to him by Chief Magistrate, Priya ...

Amid high production costs and low prices, Caribbean cane sugar producers are turning their attention to produce value-added sugars and sell the sweetener in bulk to booming industries, officials said Tuesday. Agriculture Ministers of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are expected to review the state of the industry at a meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) scheduled ...

Top officials of Suriname’s Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday declared that they were working to make that former Dutch colony the bread-basket of the Caribbean, but quickly back-pedaled and said that they were collaborating with Guyana to satisfy the region’s food needs. Permanent Secretary of Suriname’s Ministry of Agriculture, Gerrit Breinburg declared that his country has already crafted a plan ...