(FAO) THE economic importance of the tea industry has grown during the pandemic but it must confront key challenges, Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General, QU Dongyu, has said. The tea industry could play an important part in the transformation of global agri-food systems, but it must overcome significant challenges, Dongyu…
THE New Building Society (NBS), according to its financial statement for the year ending December 31, 2021, was able to garner $916.3 million in profits after earning a total of $1.94 billion in net income last year. Based on the figures published in the February 26, 2022 edition of the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper, the entity…
Cricket West Indies (CWI) has paid tribute to Sonny Ramadhin, the legendary spin bowler who passed away at age 92 on Sunday (February 27). Ramadhin was an outstanding match-winner and formed a famous partnership with left-arm spinner Alf Valentine throughout their careers. They were a crucial part of the team which led West Indies to…
… as GuySuCo training centre being converted By Shamar Meusa ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, SC, announced, last week, that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government will revamp the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) training centre at Port Mourant, in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), even as he urged Guyanese to take advantage…
KYIV/MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Russian forces seized two small cities in southeastern Ukraine and the area around a nuclear power plant, the Interfax news agency said on Monday, but ran into stiff resistance elsewhere as Moscow’s diplomatic and economic isolation deepened. After four days of fighting and a Russian advance that has gone more…
IT has been just over a week since a Noble House Seafoods vessel reportedly capsized offshore Guyana with three fishermen on board and to date, numerous search-and-rescue missions have proved futile. This has, undoubtedly, left their families in a state of turmoil and as more time passes with no sign of the men, they are…
President Irfaan Ali has travelled to Belize along with other CARICOM leaders to attend the Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is the first in-person meeting of CARICOM leaders in almost two years. The meeting opens on Tuesday and will feature statements from CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett;…
KYIV/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities. The United States said Putin was escalating the war with “dangerous rhetoric”, amid signs…
The Guyana Defence Force has condemned and debunked a post on social media that alleged that the Venezuelan military conducted operations in Guyana’s territory, that destroyed two excavators in Region 7. The GDF said the social media post is not true and such reckless and irresponsible posts only serve to unnecessarily increase public tension…
–rushed to hospital after spike in their blood pressure A BELLE PLAINE couple from the island of Wakenaam, Region Three, narrowly escaped death early Sunday morning, after their entire house went up in flames. Businessman Anil Rambarran, 54, and his wife Chandrowtie Rambarran, 52, were immediately rushed to the Wakenaam Cottage hospital after suffering a…
