Business

So far have we travelled from the condition of national euphoria that attended the May 2015 announcement by ExxonMobil that the Liza-1 oil well in the Stabroek block had yielded the first ‘world class’ oil find offshore Guyana, that last Tuesday’s revelation by the same company that it had had made the country’s nineteenth major oil find barely provoked a murmur from the country as a whole. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 912’s trading results showed consideration of $9,113,558 from 104,987 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 911’s trading results which showed consideration of $38,030,856 from 349,745 shares traded in 36 transactions.

Sebai is a riverine community in the Matarkai sub-district of Region One, Barima-Waini.

This week’s IYFG spotlight falls on Damian ‘farmer man’ Bacchus. Two decades ago he left masonry behind and decided to ‘look to the land.’

Even as an increasing number of poor countries begin to celebrate oil finds and the prospects for economic transformation that could inhere therein, a global environmental lobby continues to move in a direction that could undermine if not shatter altogether the dreams of the oil wealth hopefuls.

It is almost certainly not the easiest job in the world to find a vegetable called by as many as four names, depending on the culture in which you locate it.

 It is not that Gillian James is indifferent to the fact that ready-made women’s attire now occupies its own fair share of both the global and local markets.

Officials occupying high profile public sector positions in other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) territories will probably be paying more than peripheral interest in this week’s earlier media report that Jamaica’s Integrity Commission has initiated criminal prosecutions against two of the island’s public officials for alleged breaches of the country’s Corruption Prevention Act.

In a matter of just over a week, the presidency of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will change hands with the  St.

Just over a year after the global community was thrown into a tailspin by the sudden, devastating visitation by the coronavirus pandemic, the planet has been delivered more bad news about the threatened intervention of a phenomenon that could pose a no less deadly threat to the well-being of the international community.

While international stock markets have shown recovery during the first quarter of this year, the same cannot be said about the six markets in the Caribbean including Barbados.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 22, 2021

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 911’s trading results showed consideration of $38,030,856 from 349,745 shares traded in 36 transactions as compared to session 910’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,658,404 from 158,220 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Not even the current COVID-19 global emergency to which there, as yet, appears to be no end in sight could distract United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres from sounding what, in diplomatic terms, was a resounding alarm in response to the just released World Meteorolo-gical Organization (WMO) State of the Global Climate Report.

The first ever comprehensive report of the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury continues to reflect the international body’s concern over the continued significant use of mercury in the gold mining sector even as it raises other searching global environmental issues.

Rudolph and Rosamund Benn are this week’s Stabroek Business “fruits and vegetables’ personalities.

Rawle Clarke lives and works at Coverden, a community situated along the East Bank, about forty-five minutes’ drive from Georgetown.

If it had even been suggested as recently as forty years ago that marijuana would not only have been legalised but come close to being deified in some of the soberest of circles around the world in 2021 and would have re-presented itself as a highly lucrative, globally popular commercial product, they may have had to suffer the humiliation of being ‘laughed off the planet’.