The Management Committee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation is scheduled to meet on Thursday to decide when the first crop for 2017 will commence as well as a projected sugar production target for the year. Committee member, Deodat Sukdheo told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the latter part of…
The need to diversify the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) remains on the agenda of the Corporation. The Board of Directors and Management of the corporation presented statistical data which show the industry’s future is dependent of radical reorganization to tackle the losses incurred by the corporation. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…
A Lease agreement was today signed by Representatives of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) and Air Services Ltd. The agreement follows an investment by Air Services to rehabilitate an existing Airstrip at Burma, Mahaicony as part of a US$10 M investment. The project includes the upgrade to the…
The recent protest action by sections of Cash Crop, Rice and Cattle farmers of Region Five is a cause for concern, and a move which the Ministry of Agriculture deems ‘unfortunate’. For the past 18 years, farmers were required to pay $2500 per acre annually despite the increasing cost of…
Twenty seven communities in Region Ten will benefit from works to be done by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA). This is the first time that NDIA will be working in the area. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NDIA, Frederick Flatts, said that a large excavator and two…
