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Israeli company to cultivate 200 acres at Dora

Posted By Staff Writer On June 30, 2009 @ 5:07 am In Archives | 2 Comments

An Israeli investment company has been clearing 200 acres of land for the cultivation of pawpaws and pineapples at Dora, Soesdyke.

According to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release Shigam Inc is expected to start cultivation next month. Director of the company Liran Peretz told GINA that Guyana is the alternative due to the availability of water year round.
Minster of Agriculture Robert Persaud, who visited the farm on Saturday said the investment is a “two-wind strategy; promoting and accelerating diversity and secondly, a company with a market to allow Guyana to enter markets we were not able to enter before.”

According to GINA the company which has more than 30 years of experience in supplying markets and supporting other farmers worldwide, is currently linking with other Guyanese farmers to export fruits and vegetables, based on demand and market requirements. It said too satellite farms (agricultural food production areas which operate just within the periphery of an urban group) will sell their produce to Shigam Inc which will in turn export them to their markets in Europe and the United States.

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Meanwhile Suriname, a smaller country with less people actually clinches deals and bring them to reality.

Suriname clinched US$ 2 billion in foreign investments in a decade

Posted By Stabroek editor On May 21, 2012 @ 8:36 am In Archives | No Comments

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — With over US$ 260 million (112 million in 2010 and 154 million in 2011) direct foreign investments in Suriname have crossed the US$ 2 billion line. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has issued a report with records of all investments in the region.

Stats from the report disclose foreign financial injections between US$ 100 million and 400 million between 2002 and 2011. Henk Naarendorp chair of the Chamber of Commerce expects more investments to come referring to the expected US1 billion in investments by 2015. The ECLAC report confirms that investments in the bauxite and gold sector will exceed US$ 200 million in 2012. Naarendorp explains that the investments identify Suriname as an investment destination. ‘But that’s no reason to cheer. We should be aware that the investments are mainly in the mining sector. With the exception of the small scale mining sector, few job opportunities are created in the mining sector, so we have to use these mega investments to develop other sectors and thus create employment,’ the Chamber of Commerce official says, with the agriculture sector in mind.

‘Several laws and regulations from the past seem to slow down development. If we want to invest in other sectors, we need to adjust a number of laws. That’s up to the government and that’s often where the problem lies. We try to assist from the Suriname Business Forum, but it should be a joint effort,’ says Naarendorp. The ECLAC report states that the Caribbean and Latin America have digested a record US$ 153 billion in foreign investments in 2011 despite continuous uncertainties about the global economy. The lion share of the investments went to the mining sector.

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1/12/142:29 PM

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AFC councillor details widespread corruption within party

WEDNESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 15:38 ADMINISTRATOR

By AFC Region 6 Councillor Haseef Yusuf

AFC Councillor, Haseef Yusuf

Nothing that the Alliance For Change (AFC) does or will do in the future will ever surprise me again. There is a saying that you only know someone when you deal with him. If I had not dealt with certain executive members of the AFC, I would still be singing their praises.I knew from the inception that Nigel Hughes would rescind his resignation because in the end, when you are in the same boat, you will never want to part company with your compadres. The ‘top guns’ in the AFC need each other’s support badly. They complement each other’s corrupt practices, as they try to outsmart their members and supporters.
However, recently there was a desperate attempt to get rid of me by the National Executive Committee of the AFC since I am not part of the corrupt ‘jahaaji’ network. They sent a message with an AFC Region 6 Councillor that if I am not pleased with the current policies and actions of the party then I should resign from the party and as an AFC Councillor. I told that Councillor in no uncertain terms that if the AFC is not pleased with my stance against cronyism and corruption and my promotion of national development, then they should expel me and furthermore, it is the corrupt ones within the AFC who should resign!

Ironically, it was the same Councillor who submitted exhaustive evidence of cronyism and corruption against an AFC MP at an inquiry, who claimed that he spent in excess of $4.5M on ‘bigan’ and ‘curass’. That was a ‘whitewash inquiry’ and even the Chairman of that inquiry, the then General Secretary Mr Sextus Edwards, was not aware of the press release which concluded that the entire episode was one of ‘misunderstanding and miscommunication.’ You cannot go against your own kind!
Subsequently, there was numerous evidence of corruption but I no longer have the resolve to bring it up. It was simply a case of you cannot fight the Devil’s case in Hell!

I will just itemize a few instances:

- Certain top members of the AFC will go abroad (Canada, USA) and members in the diaspora will hold fund- raisers and give monies collected to these members who will not submit the same in its entirety since proper accounting records are not kept. I was utterly shocked when the unaudited financial statement for 2012 showed that in one year the AFC only collected $22,087,500 from its chapters in the UK, Canada, USA, etc. During the 2011 campaign alone; one of the chapters in Canada sent $55,000 Canadian or $11,000,000 (Guyana dollars). I have evidence of this.

- Certain top AFC members will collect donations and not make any recordings in any receipt book or any document whatever.

- Monies are being spent with no proper bills or vouchers;

- positions are given to cronies and those who donate a lot.

- I saw a top AFC member collect monies and issue a receipt but on looking closer I saw that there was no carbon sheet, hence no duplication made. How was the balancing done?

- Everything was donated for a fund-raiser in Berbice and it made a loss!

- On Election Day 2011, food and drinks were diverted to some AFC members’ homes for their private use while some AFC polling agents went hungry;

- During the 2012 AFC convention, a motion was passed for AFC groups to bank all monies collected in a party account, this was never done. In fact, it was I who raised that motion which was unanimously passed. So much for accountability!

- During the 2011 elections there were three factions in Berbice and all were accusing each other about theft, mismanagement and corruption, but no investigation was done. The leaders of the AFC cannot afford to ‘rock the boat.’

- During the AFC 2012 convention, members were specifically instructed not to vote for the former General Secretary but to vote in favour of David Patterson. This also happened in the case of Moses Nagamootoo and Mrs. Punalall.

- Article 15(9) of the AFC Constitution stated that the National Executive Committee shall appoint an auditor annually yet the AFC presented an unaudited and inaccurate financial statement at the AFC 2012 Convention. There is no shortage of accountants and auditors within the AFC, so why no audited accounts?

- The financial statement which ended on February 2012 showed a surplus of $464,643 yet members were told after the 2011 Elections that the AFC owed Mrs Cathy Hughes a sum in excess of $ 7,000,000 and that the AFC MPs will have to make contributions towards offsetting that liability. How can there be a surplus when monies are owed? In other words, there were no bills to support the spending of $ 7 million! The financial statement did not speak of any liability! Here is a party that is preaching accountability but is utterly devoid of that concept in its internal dealings.

Is this the party that wants to run this country? It seems as if the worst from the PNC and PPP formed the AFC; not the best as I had believed! Mr Ramjattan himself told me that if the AFC had won the elections, there would have been ‘murderation’ among members for positions. But it would have also been ‘murderation’ to fill their pockets! Imagine all the political blackmail that is going on now with the intention to fill some of the AFC’s ‘fat cats’ pockets! Come on Ramjattan, make the ‘right turn’ or resign! You cannot allow your ‘boys’ to continue their corrupt tendencies! But then can you afford “to rock the boat”?
Is it wrong for me to speak out about the very things the AFC is preaching in public about? Should I keep my mouth shut, turn a blind eye and pretend that all is well within my party?
I believe in what the Great Mahatma preached- do not be afraid to speak out against corruption even if you are alone. History will judge and absolve me for speaking out against cronyism and corruption within my party. I will have to clean my house before I clean my neighbour’s. Let us remove the ‘beam’ from our own eyes then we can see to remove the ‘speck’ from our brother’s.

1/12/143:57 PM

Former Member

This man was a PPP mole from Day one.

1/12/143:59 PM

Former Member

PPP silent on this fraud. Is Barbie doll involved?

Multi-million dollar fraud uncovered

at Guyana hospital

http://www.caribbean360.com/in...8.html#axzz2qDiRgG1I

1/12/144:01 PM

Former Member

AFC councillor details widespread corruption within party

WEDNESDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2013 15:38 ADMINISTRATOR

By AFC Region 6 Councillor Haseef Yusuf

AFC Councillor, Haseef Yusuf

- Certain top AFC members will collect donations and not make any recordings in any receipt book or any document whatever.

- Monies are being spent with no proper bills or vouchers;

- positions are given to cronies and those who donate a lot.

- I saw a top AFC member collect monies and issue a receipt but on looking closer I saw that there was no carbon sheet, hence no duplication made. How was the balancing done?

- Everything was donated for a fund-raiser in Berbice and it made a loss!

- On Election Day 2011, food and drinks were diverted to some AFC members’ homes for their private use while some AFC polling agents went hungry;

1/12/144:02 PM

MitwahSenior Member

Yugi22, pitcha like ah pitcha....

1/12/144:04 PM

Former Member

WHERE IS THIS FARM TODAY? SIX FEET UNDER.

THEY cannot keep up with the payoff to the PPP.

Israeli company to cultivate 200 acres at Dora

Posted By Staff Writer On June 30, 2009 @ 5:07 am In Archives | 2 Comments

1/12/144:05 PM

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