Government of Guyana Scholarships to study at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA)and the University of Guyana (UoG)

Qualified persons are invited to apply for a Government of Guyana (GoG) Scholarship to study at the Guyana School of Agriculture or the University of Guyana. A number of programs in agriculture are available. The deadline for submissions is September 11th, 2020.Click the link below to apply. https://scholarships.dps.gov.gy/index.php/gog-scholarships

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Panama commits to resuscitating rice deal

– settling outstanding payments with interest, says Min. Mustapha. THE Panamanian Government has responded to Guyana, acknowledging the outstanding payments for rice and has committed to addressing those payments, but has requested to do so after COVID-19 subsides, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has confirmed. In an invited comment on Thursday,…

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GAWU, NAACIE to work closely with Gov’t to reopen closed sugar estates

says diversification necessary to make industry profitable Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) General Secretary, Mr. Seepaul Narine, along with other officials from that Union and the National Association for Agricultural Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE), today met with Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha, to discuss several issues and areas…

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High-level agricultural authorities in the Americas commit to taking specific actions to guarantee food and nutritional security in response to the pandemic

The Ministers and Secretaries of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food and Rural Development of the Americas reaffirmed their willingness to implement measures at the national, regional and hemispheric levels to guarantee food and nutritional security in the hemisphere, which has been put at risk by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic…

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