Business

Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond
Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond

2024 could be the first real test of Guyana’s still ‘on trial’ tourism sector

Whenever, over several decades, the idea of Guyana becoming a ‘tourism haven’ has arisen, the idea was frequently doused with cold water, not on account of the country’s lack of credentials to support a tourism sector, but on account of ‘excuses’ that were underpinned by a mix of ideological idiocy and refusal to accept that what we saw as the grandeur that was associated with tourism in other parts of the world could not possibly be replicated here.

New Private Consultancy ready to work with serving, prospective small miners

Chief Executive Officer of the recently established ASGM GUYANA – Artisanal Small Gold Miners Guyana (ASGM) John Applewhite-Hercules earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that the focus of his new company is to work with both current and prospective small miners and potential investors in pursuit of their investment ambitions in the gold mining sector.

March FAO forum must deal frontally with Caribbean food security initiative

With the March 18-21 staging in Guyana of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 38th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (LARC38), the point cannot be made too strongly that the forum should not be allowed to metamorphose into stirring speeches, animated ‘talk shops’ and a final communique that talks a great deal but says little, if anything.

Stock Market

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1058’s trading results showed consideration of $17,953,318 from 82,684 shares traded in 40 transactions as compared to session 1057’s trading results, which showed consideration of $28,841,713 from 78,248 shares traded in 50 transactions.

Route development exercise aiming to enhance Caribbean airline travel regime

With the Caribbean continuing to attract increasing global attention as much for its reputation as a favoured tourism destination as for its more recent growing profile as a continually emerging investment haven, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is moving to help make the region more accessible to visitors by upgrading its airline route development regime.

Sultan Al Jabir seated next to Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley during his visit to the Caribbean prior to last year’s COP 28 Dubai forum

Who’s fooling whom in climate change conundrum?

While, at an earlier juncture, there appeared to have been some kind of modus vivendi between the ‘climate changers’ and the global oil giants on the need to drastically cut fossil fuel emissions in order to try to push back an imminent climate catastrophe, it transpires, or at least so it seems, that the attempt to ‘paper over’ the gap between the two sides was contrived purely to avoid a circumstance that might have scuttled last December’s COP 28 Forum in the United Arab Emirates.

NCB Chief Executive Officer
Angus Young

“When it comes to doing business, Guyana is the place to be”

What is now globally acknowledged to be Guyana’s vast oil wealth and the potential that this holds as a global magnet for lucrative significant external investment in the country’s economy has become the subject of energetic discourses at local business fora as well as at regional and international gatherings where, for expanding businesses, investment opportunities is a high priority.

Stock Market

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1057’s trading results showed consideration of $28,841,713 from 78,248 shares traded in 50 transactions as compared to session 1056’s trading results, which showed consideration of $11,207,570 from 68,485 shares traded in 28 transactions.

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