In the past year, international agencies worldwide have continued to sound an alarm over surges in food insecurity that are plunging millions of people into extreme hunger, malnutrition and threats to their overall health. The U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) calls it “a hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions.” This worrying trend has been exacerbated by […]
President Dr. Irfaan Ali believes that Guyanese fisherfolk are facing less oppressive conditions now, amid new revelations that Surinamese fishing licences were indeed promised to Guyana.The Head of State, while engaging reporters at the sidelines of
The Surinamese Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Prahlad Sewdien did indeed commit to granting fishing licences to Guyanese fishermen, an email shared in the Surinamese Parliament shows.On Tuesday, Surinamese opposition parliamentarian
Hours after the Surinamese Parliament heard that much-needed fishing licences were indeed promised to Guyana, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha says that the local authorities are vindicated by the revelation.“As I was saying all the time that w