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Guyana\'s sugar: Its industrial life cycle and collapse
2014-01-13 07:37:23| Sugar Industry News
As testimony to the present dire state of Guyana\'s sugar industry and its continued importance to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural life of the country, last week I began a third series of columns on this topic in the space of only three years. There I asserted the industry had reached a point of no return, or alternately a negative tipping-point. This week I shall address the question: what do these descriptors seek to convey?
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industrial
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Mining Takes Bite Out of Guyanas Amazon
2013-11-11 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Guyana is engaged in a balancing act to save its rainforest, regarded as a living treasure, from the destructive activities of miners digging their way to another kind of treasure buried beneath this fragile ecosystem. Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud warns that the country stands to lose about 20 million dollars from the forest conservation fund because it has lost more of the Amazon, mainly to gold and diamond mining."We are fighting for our land rights, we are fighting for our indigenous...
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amazon
mining
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Guyana\'s sugar industry to shrink crop-duration to cope with bad weather- Agri Minister
2013-01-03 08:06:09| Sugar Industry News
Repeatedly failing to reach even its revised production targets in recent years, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) is about to shrink the duration of its two annual crops to cope with longer wet weather spells, Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has announced.
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industry
weather
minister
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