In circumstances where small businesses in Guyana are still not exactly ‘going wild’ over the extent to which their growth ambitions are receiving sufficiently energetic backing from the country’s ‘high profile’ commercial banks in pursuit of the growth of their businesses, their counterpart Small Business Enterprise [SME’s] in Trinidad and Tobago would appear to be ‘singing a different tune.’
By Antoinette Connell
Barbados joined 68 other countries in the third edition of the African continent elite Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2023, a showcase of the massive investment potential for billions through intra-Africa alliances.
Small business owners who constantly fret over the hurdles one never fails to encounter in the pursuit of running a small business just about anywhere in coastal Guyana ought to interact more with their opposite numbers in hinterland communities in order to put their own circumstances into perspective.
A week before the high profile global climate change forum gets underway in Dubai a new United Nations report on climate change has brought news that national climate action plans by countries across the world remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Trinidad and Tobago may not be about to surrender its credentials as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) member country with the most prominent petro-imprint on its economy, up to this time, though, that said, its ambition to ‘shine’ in the regional export sector, outside of oil and gas would appear to be altogether undiminished.
In the weeks preceding the staging of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture [CWA] in October no pains were spared across the region to ‘big up’ the event, coverage of its agenda suggesting that it might well be one of those regional events that might play a pivotal role in helping to turn the proverbial corner in the matter of shoring up what we were being told for several months were our shabby food security bona fides.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1046’s trading results showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 1045’s trading results, which showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions.
The resuscitation of GuyExpo last week following a hiatus of seven years was a commendable initiative given the fact that the optional avenues for product promotion for farm produce and their by-products have always been decidedly limited.
A fortnight before the commencement of the COP 28 Climate Summit in Abu Dhabi, there is evidence that an agreement on the phasing out of fossil fuel remains on centre stage, the occupancy by the United Arab Emirates of a strong strategic position at the summit table notwithstanding.
The seeming incremental lifting by the United States of sanctions which had been imposed on Venezuela’s oil exports tied to political differences with Washington has seemingly arrived at a point where some of the world’s major traders are returning to the source of some of the world’s largest oil reserves.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1045’s trading results showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 1044’s trading results, which showed consideration of $13,416,027 from 56,217 shares traded in 14 transactions.
IMF Blog
Serkan Arslanalp, Robin Koepke, Alessandra Sozzi, Jasper Verschuur
November 15, 2023
Around 1,000 ships pass through the Panama Canal each month carrying a total of over 40 million tons of goods—about 5 percent of global maritime trade volume.
The Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Division in Jamaica’s Ministry of Industry, Investment & Commerce, is reportedly pulling out the stops to persuade owners of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to secure investments grants and other facilities to support them in the growth of their business operations.
On the far too few occasions when Kamarang gets a mention in the mainstream media, those references, rarely, if ever, suitably contextualize the significance of the community.