Ms. Annette Arjoon

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  Published on: 6/12/2009    Last Visited: 6/23/2009  

  Flight Operations Superintendent, Ms. Annette Arjoon said: We are committed to the development of tourism in Guyana, which is why we are here today.
  
  She said the tourists will have opportunities to photograph and enjoy the breathtaking beauty of the rainforest during the one-hour flight.
  
  Arjoon suggested that, in light of President Jagdeos Low Carbon Development Strategy, passengers can see and learn more about the rainforests while flying.
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  At left, Minister Persaud, two Region One farmers and Mrs. Arjoon with the new brand of ground coffee (Adrian Narine photo).
  
  Speaking on the occasion at Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, Georgetown, NWO founder, Mrs. Annette Arjoon said the introduction meshes with todays demand for organically produced foods and dovetails with President Bharrat Jagdeos low carbon development strategy.
  
  She told the gathering, mostly of Region One (Barima/Waini) farmers, that the production processes involved are carbon neutral and, on the whole, contribute to income generation in impoverished communities.
  
  The beans from which the coffee is made are grown by farmers at Hosororo and Bunbury and sold to Blue Flame Womens Group, also in Region One, which does the processing,
  
  NWO then packages and distributes the processed coffee.
  
  Arjoon said limited consumer testing has established that the coffee has a distinctive flavour, probably attributable to the fertile lateritic soil and environmental conditions of North West District, known as the organic area of Guyana.
  
  She pointed out that NWO, which is an offshoot of Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS), of which she is the Project Coordinator, intends to continue putting out a different product annually, as it has done over the past few years.
  
  SUPERMARKETS Arjoon said the coffee now being marketed is available at Bounty, Nigels and Bonnys supermarkets in the city.
  
  She said, too, that NWO works in collaboration with Blue Flame to make crabwood oil, crabwood soap, cocoa sticks, peanut butter, cassava bread and cassareep, although mainly to meet their community needs.
  
  Arjoon lauded the support of Go-Invest and the Ministries of Agriculture and Amerindian Affairs in the promotion of the various business ventures of NWO and farming activities in Region One locations.

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  Published on: 3/21/2009    Last Visited: 5/11/2009  

  This was as DeFreitas and his fellow coordinators, Ms. Annette Arjoon and Ms. Michelle Kalamandeen, of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS), along with other stakeholders, gathered at the Pegasus Hotel Thursday evening for an informative seminar.
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  Community Development coordinator with GMTCS, Ms. Annette Arjoon, in continuing the evenings tale, added, the protected area process, as it relates to protecting Shell Beach, is all about the people.
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  According to Arjoon, produce from the area includes peppers, papaws, pumpkins, citrus, cocoa, cassava bread, cassava cassareep and, in the making, coffee, among others.

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  Published on: 3/16/2008    Last Visited: 3/18/2008  

  I was in Guyana to shoot a video about Annette Arjoon, the secretary of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS).Annette win the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence 2008 for Public and Civic Contributions.
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  We does show a video on the winners during the awards ceremony, so that is what I was in Guyana to do: shoot a video about Annette Arjoon and the other Guyanese winner, Prof David Dabydeen.
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  Me and the video crew spend three-and-a-half days with Annette, going in the Interior in a part of the country name Region One, up by the Venezuelan border.We went with Annette to a town name Mabaruma, then up the Waini River to the Atlantic coast.The GMTCS working to tag and protect turtles on Shell Beach there.
  
  Annette also helping the Amerindian people in the area to make and market their native products under the brand name, North West Organics.It have cocoa sticks - creole chocolate - from Mabaruma, crabwood oil and soap from Waini River, and cassava bread and cassareep from other villages in the same region.
  
  She not there to exploit them, take their products and vanish in a puff of smoke like some other organisation might of done.She helping all these communities develop their own production centres, standardise the products, increase efficiencies of production and even distribution.For example, she help this area in the Waini River name ,Three Brothers, to develop a natural resources development and conservation plan.Apparently, the plan so sick that government looking at it as a model for other areas.
  
  Annette is a Guyanese sheself.She have that muddy brown water of the Demerara in she veins, and she have a hopefulness as buoyant as a Amerindian cork canoe.She love the place and I for one can,t wait to see what she going to accomplish in the future.
  
  Is people like she who this Anthony Sabga Awards looking for.Annette sharing she award with a lady from Jamaica, Claudette Richardson Pious, who running a NGO name ,Children First,.They taking children off the streets and giving HIV/AIDS education to young people all over the island.

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  They are Professor David Dabydeen of Guyana (arts & letters), James Husbands of Barbados (science & technology) and Annette Arjoon of Guyana and Claudette Richardson-Pious of Jamaica (joint winners, public & civic contributions).
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  As joint winners of the public & civic contributions prize, Arjoon and Richardson-pious will share their monetary prize equally.
  
  The 2008 laureates will be given their prizes in a gala ceremony in Trinidad & Tobago on 12 April.
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  Arjoon is the founding secretary and project co-ordinator of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society and has been instrumental in protecting Shell Beach, a 100-mile ecosystem in the northwest coastal region of Guyana where four species of marine turtle nest.Arjoon is also managing director of Shell Beach Adventures, an eco-tourism company.

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  Published on: 6/13/2009    Last Visited: 6/23/2009  

  Speaking on the occasion at Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, Georgetown, NWO founder, Mrs. Annette Arjoon said the introduction meshes with todays demand for organically produced foods and dovetails with President Bharrat Jagdeos low carbon development strategy.
  
  She told the gathering, mostly of Region One (Barima/Waini) farmers, that the production processes involved are carbon neutral and, on the whole, contribute to income generation in impoverished communities.
  
  The beans from which the coffee is made are grown by farmers at Hosororo and Bunbury and sold to Blue Flame Womens Group, also in Region One, which does the processing,
  
  NWO then packages and distributes the processed coffee.
  
  Ms. Arjoon said limited consumer testing has established that the coffee has a distinctive flavour, probably attributable to the fertile lateritic soil and environmental conditions of North West District, known as the organic area of Guyana.

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  Published on: 4/28/2002    Last Visited: 11/16/2004  

  `The search for the `Fountain of Youth is over!' - Annette Arjoon of GMTCS

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  Annette Arjoon
  
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  Published on: 11/3/2002    Last Visited: 11/3/2002  

  "I am pleading with fishermen to please loose (turtles) out of their nets instead of chopping them..." - conservationist Annette Arjoon.
  
  Reports yesterday of several turtles floating up dead along the East Coast Demerara seashore led conservationists to the remains of two endangered Leatherbacks, which had washed up on the Enmore beach.
  
  Both flippers of each of the turtles were chopped off and Ms. Annette Arjoon, Secretary of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society (GMTCS), suspects they were going to nest when they became entangled in a fishing net(s).
  
  According to her, the fisherman/men may have chopped off the flippers to get the turtles out from the nets.
  
  She pointed out that when the flippers are chopped off, the turtles are subsequently left in a state of shock and they bleed to death.
  
  Arjoon, two officials from Conservation International and this news service visited the Enmore foreshore yesterday afternoon to investigate the report that six dead turtles were seen along that part of the beach.
  
  The first turtle discovered by the team at about 13:00 hrs was riddled with maggots and Arjoon said that based on the state of decomposition, the turtle may have died about two weeks ago.She averaged that the dead turtle may have weighed around 800 pounds.
  
  The remains of the second turtle, a few yards from the first, showed it was a little larger, weighing around 1,000 pounds, and based on its state of decomposition, Arjoon said it may have died a few days after the first.Apart from the two flippers, the head of this turtle was also chopped off.
  
  This is currently the peak nesting season (May to July) for the turtles.
  
  Arjoon noted that the Leatherbacks must wait 30 years before reaching nesting maturity.
  
  While the turtle is not popular for its oily meat, its eggs are eagerly sought after and the reptile is killed by fishermen when trapped in nets.
  
  Arjoon also expressed alarm that some 38 of the endangered Leatherback turtles were discovered dead so far for this year.
  
  "I am pleading with fishermen to please loose them out of their nets instead of chopping them..."
  
  She stressed the importance of conserving and protecting these turtles, since all four species of marine turtles, including the Leatherbacks that exist in Guyana are endangered.She noted too that the Leatherback population in Guyana is alarmingly low.
  
  However, earlier this year there was a resurgence of the turtles in the Northwest owing to a temporary fishing ban which was issued mid-last year to save them.
  
  The restriction was lifted in the latter part of last year allowing fishermen to fish near the Northwest shore where these endangered species nest at Shell Beach from March through July every two to three years.
  
  As part of the monitoring process, the Ministry of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock has employed Turtle Excluder Devices (TED) inspectors on a permanent basis at several of its wharves.
  
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  Arjoon said the TEDs have been successful to "an extent" but that more stringent measures need to be put in place to ensure that more is done.
  
  Generally, Leatherback turtles are known to nest throughout the Caribbean, on the northern coast of South America, the Pacific Coast of Central America and on the east coast of Florida.
  
  The turtles lay six to nine egg clutches, each of which contains about 80 fertilised eggs the size of billiard balls and 30 smaller unfertilised eggs.The eggs incubate for 65 days.
  
  Mature Leatherbacks typically reach about four to eight feet in length and weigh from 650 to 1,300 pounds.

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