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2021 Grenada Senate Budget Debate, Day 2
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2021 Grenada Senate Budget Debate, Day 2: Morning Session, Wednesday 16 December 2020. Rebuttal to Senator St Clair's presentation yesterday on agriculture and fisheries.
18 SEPTEMBER, 2020, ST. GEORGE’S: 16 September 2021 marked one year since I was elected by our Farmers and Fisherfolk to represent them as their Senator for Agriculture and Fisheries in the Upper House of the Grenada Parliament. Representing them in Parliament is a new experience that I am learning from every day. I am grateful for their trust in me. I am listening to the voices of our Farmers and Fisherfolk as we strengthen bonds at all levels to find solutions, by exploring opportunities, and seeking redress on their behalf. Together, we are building stronger organisations and networks from the ground up towards a better life for them, their families and the nation. I thank all the Farmers and Fisherfolk, the line Ministers and staff at the ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries, Senator colleagues, the media and the general public for their insight, assistance, and guidance provided thus far. I am grateful that Grenada’s agriculture and fisheries sectors remain on call...
31 DECEMBER 2020, ST GEORGE’S: Over a 30-year period, on the advice of Her Majesty’s Grenada Ministers, Queen Elizabeth II has awarded 54 men and women for their service and contribution to agriculture, farming, fishing, agro-processing, horticulture, shipwright, seafaring, sugar, bananas, and poultry. Grenada, our farmers and fisherfolk are doing their part to put food on our plates and we must be proud that they are being publicly acknowledged across the Commonwealth. I commend the nominating committee for including agriculture and fisheries for these awards, and for recognising and acknowledging these stalwarts in our communities. Our nation should be inspired by our homegrown heroes and motivated to grow what we eat, and eat what we grow. This is the awardee list from 1987 – 2021 as taken from the London Gazette. The awards are • CBE: Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire • OBE: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British...
The Senate Order Paper of the 10th Parliament 4th Session to be held on Wednesday, June 02, 2021 at 9 am, lists a petition by Senator the Honourable Roderick St. Clair on behalf of farmers, for the review of the existing agreement between the Government of Grenada and the Caribbean Agro Industries Limited so that farmers can have more affordable feed. The Senator has questions for the Leader of Government’s Business, Senator the Honourable Simon Stiell, unanswered at Sitting of the Senate held on Wednesday January 27, 2021, concerning Praedial Larceny, Farmers ID, and vendors; land policy; fisheries ice machines through a grant from the Japan International Cooperation System (JICS); the National Poultry Policy and finally on the Pestilential activities of rodents. Senator St. Clair poses three new questions for the Leader of Government’s Business, which require written responses on the Praedial Larceny Fund; the Farm Machinery Pool of the Ministry of Agriculture and t...
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