Do we have the source for this article?

Yep!

Click on the link:

http://www.guyanatimesgy.com/?p=2888

Rev

While traditional sectors such as sugar, bauxite, and rice continue to contribute significantly to economic development, new and emerging sectors are flourishing as well. These include to a large extent, tourism and mining.

In agriculture, rice with a target of 412,000 tonnes has again outdone itself; recording a production of over 422,058 tonnes, by far, the largest output in the history of rice production in Guyana with overall average yield being 4.6 tonnes per hectare.

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Seems like mining, tourism and the Rice Industry are the drivers.  Way to go.

God bless the PPP!

Lena:

What the Caribbean Development bank(CDB) reveals is the TRUTH regarding Guyana's economy--unlike other economies in the region, Guyana's economy is growing nicely and most sectors are humming along.

Of course the losers and whiners on this forum who support the AFC/PNC cannot accept that truth---because if they do it will destroy their illusions about the PPP being bad for Guyana.

By the way, don't be surprised to see 3rd rate/3 cents AFC economist Dr. Tarron Khemraj(TK) come here and question the IQ and intelligence of that CDB official Dr. Carla Barnett---that's his modus operandi.lol

Rev

You are an ass and do not know the trouble for a small farmer planting rice. Most of the locals hardly have more than 3 acres and that means they get 60 bags of paddy on average and that is around $1700 per crop with a minimum of 2 crops a year for backbreaking toil. And that is with good projections. It takes at least 5 months to get paid despite the legislation demanding payment in two months.  It never happens. The result is the people give up and another crop of fools try and they still lose their shirts. The industry is slave labor for small farmers. Only the big ones make it.

CHRONICLE: GUYANA INKS $40 MILLION(US) LOAN AGREEMENT WITH CDB--FOR TRANSPORT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROJECTS

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* Finance Minister Singh explained that government recognises fully the catalytic role that transport infrastructure plays in economic development, and in improving the social conditions in which people live.

* “This project is the latest installment in our extensive efforts to upgrade and expand our country’s physical infrastructure and in particular, transport infrastructure,” Minister Singh emphasised.

* It is estimated that over 100,000 people will benefit from this upgrade

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http://www.guyanachronicleonline.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55903:guyana-inks-us40m-loan-grant-agreement-with-cdb-for-transport-and-poverty-alleviation-projects&catid=4:top-story&Itemid=8

Rev

Nothing new here. The begging bowl economy has always been the backbone of the society. Unlike the Chinese loan, these are given over to the government to the deliverables are completely on the back of the government. I doubt it will reach 100K people after the aggressive graft of the PPP. 

Overall, production is up and that is a BIG STEP.  Definitely, more can be done to accommodate the small farmers so they get paid on time.

Kudos to Guyana.

Storm-sewer:

I see you are now blabbering about Guyana's growing rice industry---400,000+ tons produced last year---most in Guyana's history---and yet you are fuming and finding fault.

Listen storm-sewer! You losers and whiners in the AFC/PNC can bawl and scream day and night--you can complain, condemn and criticize the PPP all you want---you can engage in name calling and cheat insults all you want---but the TRUTH is the DOERS and MOVERS & SHAKERS in Guyana are propelling the country FORWARD---and the esteemed Caribbean Development bank has just acknowledged the economic progress in Guyana.

Keep bawling and screaming storm-sewer--you're good at it--but Guyana is moving forward--and that deeply pains you losers.

Rev

 The only place you win is with your big, stupid, racist mouth. The only thing you do is highlight that Caribj may be right. There may be, hidden among the bramble bush, black sage and bisibisi patch a discoverable sub group of Indians who can be rightly be called Indo Nazis. You and Yugi are apparently high priests of this sect.

Also, most Guyanese know their lives are in the pits. The above reflects that beggerbowl strategy to meet the needs of our poor.  Were we the bread basket of the Caribbean, as another poster wildly surmised; we would not be on our knees with well worn knee pads supplicating the money gods for cash from heaven.

When we can earn our keep, ie produce a surplus, then you can tell me of progress, When 40 percent of our people do not live below the poverty line and we do not hear ceaseless reports of brazen banditry from the growing scourge of junkies;tell me of progress. When our government gladly open its books so we can be assured the rampant theft is not on going, then tell me of progress.  Meanwhile, we are the classic banana republic being bled dry by a government of leeches.

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I have quite a few friends working as economists at CDB. They are economists but they need to be diplomats also. They are bright people. You Rev Al (who works for the PPP) is the one with the very low IQ. Delta Airlines seem to have a different expectation of tourism. 

i see one more loan guysuco is bleeding the tax payers money the raice farmers take 2 yrs to get paid the miners is distroying the native land and water crime is on the increase the fishermen is scare to go on the sea to make a living blackout every day in berbice which country you ppp fools say is developing

What a bunch of utter hogwash. Write something that everyone on this board can read. You write for only people with your menatlity can understand.

Can you understand waht I am saying?

 I can read it. I edited it ( without changing any of the words) so you can read also.

Nothing he said there is a falsehood or an invention. He simply insists from his list of issues of a pressing nature that he sees nothing to cheer so vociferously as the Rev is cheering.

TK and others will burn in Envy. HA HA.

God bless the president of Guyana.