Several Region Five communities are again flooded as a result of heavy rainfall over the past few days. The areas include Bushlot, Golden Grove, Lovely Lass, Onverwagt, Trafalgar and Tempe. Frederick Flatts, Chief Executive Officer (ag) of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) said that apart from the rainfall,…
The impact of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) in Guyana was further highlighted with the official launching of the Building Resilience and Sustainable Livelihood: Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management/Disaster Risk Reduction (DRM/DRR) project in the Agriculture Sector in Guyana. The US$300,000 project which is funded by the Japan Government with supervision of…
The rehabilitated East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) project, phase two was today, handed over to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) at Flagstaff, East Coast, Demerara. The two-phased project was aimed at procuring equipment and rehabilitating facilities for the improvement of the flood-control capacity of the EDWC. Phase one…
Guyana has long been touted as having the potential to become the bread basket of the Caribbean. But, for decades the dream has been elusive. With its available, vast, arable lands and water sources, one is faced with the question, “What is being done to realize the true potential of…
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) today launched the ‘New GuySuCo’, ‘One GuySuCo’ and ‘The Putting GuySuCo First’ concepts as a part of the strategic and systematic implementation of its change management programme. The launch was held in the Conference Room at the Head Office at Ogle Estate and targeted members…
