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Rice farmers are calling for the nationalisation of the rice industry in the wake of low prices they are expected to receive for paddy.At a fiery meeting held yesterday at the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) office at Crane,Stitched Jerseys, West Coast Demerara, between farmers, millers,NFL Jerseys Outlet, representatives from the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) and the RPA, farmers expressed emphatically that they are operating at a loss and government must intervene.For the upcoming crop, farmers are expected to receive $2000 for a bag of paddy and this is almost four thousand dollars less than what they received previous crops.Jagnarine Singh, General Manager of the GRDB, explained that the industry is a private enterprise and as such, the setting of prices is left to millers and farmers. He reminded farmers that they were the ones who subscribed to the current changes. This comment did not sit well with the farmers, since they are of the opinion that the GRDB should really be doing more but it is made up of too many ‘yes-men’.Ganga Persaud, a farmer of 52 years, believes the industry is heading for imminent collapse if the current low rice price trend continues. He insists that farmers will not have the financial resources to go back to the fields.Persaud noted that the current fluctuation in prices is an ongoing trend, but the time has come for government to set rice prices rather than leave it to millers who he emphasized, continue to exploit farmers. He questioned the role of the RPA in representing the farmers.Rice Miller Turhane DoergaPersaud also opined that if a representative of the body is also a member of the government it would be difficult for that individual to agitate for better working conditions for the group he represents. Persaud referred to the current situation as a ‘ticking time bomb’.Turhane Doerga, a miller of Ruimzeight Rice Mills, said the genesis of the crisis has its roots in a US-owned company signing contracts with a few local millers and exporters at US$355 per 1000 kg cargo. He said this move is what contributed to millers being unable to pay more than $2000 per bag for paddy.Doerga is at a loss as to who authorised this agreement, as according to him, this move meant that millers were unable to bargain for higher prices when selling abroad and as such this filtered down to the farmers. He assured them that millers’ hands are tied “we don’t want a war between the millers and the farmers… we would have paid more if we could.”He said he feels for the farmers since no one should operate at a loss. Doerga proposed that millers and farmers approach the Agriculture Minister, and indicated that he (Doerga) is willing to pay $3250 for a bag of paddy if the right climate is created.Meanwhile, GRDB Head, Jagnarine Singh, is proposing that a specialised agency be set up to look after the interest of small and medium size mills. This he said will assist in alleviating many of the problems that currently exist. He believes fifty percent of the farmers will be able to earn a livable income if his proposal is taken onboard.In the meantime, farmers are calling for the setting up of a farmer’s intervention fund. They say the rice industry should be assisted the same way government has assisted others.Also at the meeting it was established that a delegation of farmers would meet with President Bharrat Jagdeo, before the end of the week, on paddy prices as well as other critical issues facing the industry.Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, General Secretary of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj, said that on Tuesday he spoke with the President, who is currently in Brazil, and the Head of State has agreed to meet with a number of the farmers and rice officials upon his return.An estimated 60 farmers and rice millers attended yesterday’s meeting where concerns were also raised on the state of farming roads, the quality of contractors’ work on infrastructure and paddy prices.Also present at yesterday’s meeting was Vice Chairman,NFL Jerseys China, Manpersaud and members of the water users associations of Region Three.At the conclusion of the meeting many farmers expressed dissatisfaction that they were unable to take away anything positive from the meeting. They said that the sole reason for calling the meeting was to come to a compromise about rice prices, but this was not achieved. There are other such meetings to be held countrywide in the coming week to address the current situation.Last week, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, had said that is not government’s role to find new markets or meddle with price, since Guyana operates a free market system. The government’s role includes taking matters and handling them on a bilateral level.A number of rice farmers had met with the Minister, where

Single mothers who depend on every dime to provide their children with fulfilling Christmases say that this year will be more difficult, since collecting child support payments from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court has become an unbearable hassle.They describe the process of collecting their children’s entitlement and an additional source of income for making their holidays great, as an intolerable two,MLB Jerseys From China, sometimes three-day worry.A small group of the women during their wait in the compound of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Thursday.One woman said that “single mothers got to take one whole day off from work just so that we can stand in the line at the court to sign for we cheques. Then after waiting there for hours,Jerseys Wholesale, we does have to go back the next day to collect the cheques.“Most of the time, by the time we get it,Cheap NFL Jerseys, the bank does be closed and we does have to take time off? from work again, to go to the Bank of Guyana and cash the cheques”.Several of the women who came from various parts of the country to collect the monies from the Magistrates’ Court at Middle Street on Tuesday, last, complained about the inconvenience.Kaieteur News understands that the “two days of running” started after another fraud pertaining to the child support funds was unearthed last September.The women are pleading with those in authority to change the uncomfortable procedure, since only hardworking single mothers are suffering.“We are poor women struggling to do everything we can to make our children happy, and if doing what we doing now ain’t hard enough, we getting more and more worries,” one mother said.She noted that she was already warned last month about taking two consecutive days off from work every month. “If I get fired what will happen then? Will them extremely slow workers here at the court be blamed for that?” the woman queried.The women argued that the situation is such because the staffers who are handling the child support monies are “incapable, and slow”.“Is not like is anything hard. All we does got to get is signatures. And that does take them a whole day. This thing could be made easy on we if only these people had feelings and if they de doing what the people money paying them to do. We does be so stressed out worrying about we two days pay that we losing out and these people in here don’t care. Anybody could even go in and see when the girl signing the cheque how long she does take. Like is a masterpiece work of art,” one of the women said.Another lamented that she was not even aware of the new two-day procedure and had gone to the court with just a one- way transportation fare. She explained that she was then forced to beg the other women there for the return fare.“Them other women didn’t have much,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, but them pool li’l bit, li’l bit and I got to go home. I drink water to sleep that night. I had to buy textbooks for my child the day before, and I didn’t get paid yet, so I didn’t have any money. I was waiting for my child’s father to send money. I had to send my daughter for dinner at my mother’s house,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys 2018,” the woman complained.“This is Christmas time. We got children looking to us for something nice. My daughter almost finish High School and she never went to a school party before. I was hoping to make everything perfect for she last one, but if this continues I gon can’t do that.“Imagine if I tek another day off to come here and then I get send home from work, what gon happen then?” another woman asked.Another woman claimed that she had been waiting at the court for many hours with her less-than-a-month-old baby. She noted that she was still experiencing post partum pains, but since she had no money at home and other children to take care of, she had to “struggle” and take the baby with her.The woman told this newspaper that she had been waiting for many hours just to give her signature so that she can go back the following day (yesterday) to uplift her cheque.“They told me that I got to come back tomorrow. Now if I don’t come back my children will have to starve, and if I do, they gon got to stay home from school. And now is test time. The least that these people could’ve done was inform people of this ridiculous new process,” the lady said.Single mothers who depend on their ‘child support’, are now calling on the relevant authorities to look into the situation.“If this continues our children won’t have the Christmas that we want them to have. So all of we here begging those on the throne to help us. We fighting every day to provide food for our children, and all we want right now, is money to give them something to remember. It also un

By Neil Marks in CopenhagenUnited Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer has spread further uncertainty that the Copenhagen summit would produce a new legally binding agreement to make the planet cooler.“Nobody knows what the outcome of this conference will be,” said de Boer at a midday news conference at the Bella Centre.This follows Wednesday’s quandary when the small island state of Tuvalu was handed a suspension of the negotiations it demanded over a quarrel among developing countries.Several small island states and poor countries in Africa supported Tuvalu in calling for parties in Copenhagen to sign a new legally-binding protocol under the convention to complement an amended Kyoto Protocol, and to discuss this in a contact group.However, India and China, together with Saudi Arabia,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Venezuela,Wholesale MLB Jerseys 2018, Algeria, Kuwait,Cheap Jerseys Store, Oman and Nigeria opposed the establishment of a contact group, saying the focus should remain on the adoption of a new protocol.The two-week meeting, the fifteenth Conference of the 193 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifth meeting of the 189 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, is the culmination of a process set in motion in Bali, Indonesia, where Parties to the UNFCCC agreed to conclude negotiations on a new global deal in Denmark in 2009.? The UN climate chief insisted that Kyoto is the only protocol that “we have to act on climate change and that the Protocol “must and will remain.”Under the Protocol, 37 States, consisting of highly industrialized countries and countries undergoing the process of transition to a market economy,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, have legally binding emission limitation and reduction commitments.The ultimate objective is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.The US has not signed on to the Kyoto protocol. President Barack Obama has said the US government would offer a provisional 17 percent emission cut from 2005 levels by 2020, but developing nations say this is not tough enough.The United Nations and the Danish government are keen on a new climate deal being struck in Copenhagen.So de Boer stayed clear of indications of a protracted stalemate in the talks, saying that after three days of negotiations parties are now “getting down to work” after the initial days of “nervousness.”Negotiators are under further pressure to come up with some decisions as de Boer announced that an increasing number of ministers will begin arriving in the Danish capital from tomorrow.As a result, President of the conference of parties, Connie Hedegaard, will take stock of the progress so the Ministers could have a clear set of texts and reports “so they could have a solid foundation for climate action,” said de Boer.As it stands, de Boer said the challenge for the negotiators is getting the text to be concise but unambiguous.“Whatever comes out of this conference has to be crystal clear and guard against multiple interpretations,” said de Boer.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an aggregate emission reduction by industrialised countries of between minus 25% and 40% over 1990 levels would be required by 2020 in order to stave off the worst effects of climate change, with global emissions falling by at least 50% by 2050. Even under this scenario, there would be only a 50% chance of avoiding the most catastrophic consequences. However, despite the pessimism, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was optimistic the conference would produce an agreement.“We will get an agreement – and,Jerseys From China, I believe, that the agreement will be signed by all U.N. member states,Cheap NFL jerseys China, which is historic,” Ban said in an interview in the Danish daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende.The United Nations set a deadline for the Copenhagen talks to yield a legally binding and tougher agreement to expand or replace the Kyoto Protocol from 2013.But negotiations, launched in 2007, became bogged down and the talks are likely to end with a weaker political declaration. A legally binding treaty text might agreed next year.Regarding a fund to help developing countries adapt to climate change, Todd Stern, President Barack Obama’s climate change envoy, expressed support for a UN call for a US$10 billion fund to be provided internationally from 2010 to 2012 for short-term adaptation in vulnerable countries.Sweden yesterday said it will give 800 million euro (US$1.2 billion) to help develo

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