Isn’t it just amazing how most countries in the region are belly-aching about the increase in the price of food, mainly imported, after years of rhetoric about kick-starting agriculture, which sadly never came.
It might be true to say our leaders were probably still talking about resuscitating this important sector of our economy while the high [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Revenge of agriculture’s neglect
Posted in Caribbean on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The coming storm?
Posted in Caribbean on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As if the Caribbean did not have enough worries on its over-flowing plate to deal with – rising food prices and a neglected agricultural sector, high oil prices and a runaway crime situation to name a few – the region now has to gird itself against the impending impact of the US sub-prime housing crisis [...]
Saving our children:
Posted in Caribbean on May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Guyana has had its share of tragedies involving children, the latest which occurred when brazen gunmen in two separate massacres on Bartica and Lusignan mercilessly rained bullets on the bodies of young children, even as some of them were in the depths of sleep.
It’s a tragedy that Guyana – nor the Caribbean will easily forget [...]
Food inflation pressure rising:
Posted in Caribbean on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
