Agriculture workforce receives boost!

─ close to 100 students graduate from GSA   “Graduates, you now have the potential to strengthen the agriculture sector by using the knowledge, skills and experience that you have gained, coupled with your creativity and innovative ideas, to improve traditional Agriculture and come up with new solutions to solve…

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Remarks by Hon. Noel Holder, Minister of Agriculture for the Ministry’s EMANCIPATION CULTURAL PROGRAMME

Chair, Minister Adams-Yearwood, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen. I have been invited by the madam Minister’s “Special Events Committee” to give some “brief remarks” during this our ministry’s Emancipation Cultural Programme, to which request I have consented with the greatest pleasure. Guyana shares Emancipation Day with other Caribbean nations that were…

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Pomeroon canal being cleared after decades

– Hackney Village farmers breathe a sigh of relief   Scores of farmers in the lower Pomeroon are breathing a sigh of relief as the National Drainage and Irrigation Agency (NDIA) will soon conduct a canal clearing exercise in the Moruka/Phoenix Park Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC). NDIA will be clearing…

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More than 3000 farmers saved

─Govt addressing dumping of coconut husks in Pomeroon River (DPI) More than 3,000 coconut farmers in the Lower Pomeroon are resting easier, knowing that their government listened to their plight and acted in their best interest thus securing their financial futures The farmers were left pondering as to what their…

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