Month: August 2020
-
Region Nine’s COVID response team in quarantine – -after exposure to infected persons
All members of Region Nine’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Team have been quarantined after they came into contact with persons infected…
Read More » -
News
New Agriculture Minister says gov’t committed to reopening sugar estates – -pledges to be in the fields
Promising to be a “field” minister who will be accessible to farmers countrywide, newly appointed Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha…
Read More » -
News
Man shot in cross-city police chase succumbs
Cecil Sampat, one of two civilians shot following a police chase through the city nearly two weeks ago, died on…
Read More » -
News
Rambarran demanding $65m in lease fees for new hospital – -says still owns property, threatens to retake control
Sole shareholder, Jacob Rambarran, of the Ocean View Hotel which was converted by the previous APNU+AFC Administration into an infectious…
Read More » -
News
Good Hope woman chopped to death – -after feud between sons, villagers
A 52-year-old woman of Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was brutally murdered sometime yesterday morning following a feud involving…
Read More » -
Hinterland, coastal small businesses being strangled by official neglect
Our ongoing editorial focus on small businesses in agriculture, agro processing and on hinterland business ventures (gold being the notable…
Read More » -
Business
Trials of Moco Moco’s Kayaweng Agro Processors reveal historic official indifference to hinterland entrepreneurship
At Moco Moco Village in Region Nine, Central Rupununi, opportunities for sustainable employment are few. The article Trials of Moco…
Read More » -
Business
A hungrier world!
A combination of worsening global poverty and the particular challenges arising out of the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic could…
Read More » -
Business
GEB rewards it’s high achievers
GEB Security Services rewards its high achievers On July 24 last, one of the country’s longest serving security services, GEB…
Read More » -
Business
State, private sector need to do more to grow micro, small hinterland ‘hustles’
How to create viable business enterprises out of hinterland-based ‘hustles’ designed, in the first instance, to foster a measure of…
Read More »