Business

x In this issue of the Stabroek Business we complete the feature article ‘Rupununi Rising?’

A handful of the country’s longest –serving private sector entities in the manufacturing sector have been singled out for commendation by the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) in its 2023 Annual Report setting out the various sectorial performances for the year just ended.

Amidst heightening public concern over the erratic nature of the electricity supply in coastal Guyana, and relative muted but boisterous protest by domestic consumers and businesses alike, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) announced on Monday that its Petroleum Committee had facilitated a discussion forum on energy supply with head of the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), Kesh Nandlall.

By Brooke Glasford Last weekend I ventured 40 minutes outside of Georgetown to the West Central Mall for the sole purpose of visiting the West Central Movies.

Even as the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States against Venezuela, seemingly over Washington’s doubts regarding the likely fairness of the country’s July general elections, the European Union does not appear – at least up to this time – prepared to set aside its support for the potentially highly valued Dragon Gas project between Caracas and Port of Spain. 

Gold Prices for Thursday April 25, 2024

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1068’s trading results showed consideration of $35,605,782 from 104,845 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1066’s trading results, which showed consideration of $9,073,649 from 52,144  shares traded in 40 transactions.

With the global environmental lobby increasingly focusing its attention on rolling back the increasing avalanche of plastics’ proliferation and its weighty global environmental impact, negotiators and activists were expected to congregate in Ottawa this week to attempt to craft a treaty which, hopefully, will contribute to the rolling back of the plastic pollution menace.

Up until news broke earlier this week that Dr. Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon had tendered his resignation as President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), there had been a lengthy period during which a paucity of information prevailed in the matter of the reason(s) why the St.

In a move which appeared to send a message to the administration of President Nicholas Maduro that Washington remains steadfast in the imposition of sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the United States has charged ten persons, one of them a Venezuelan military officer, of helping Caracas to circumvent the US sanctions.

As economic and social conditions in Haiti continue to undergo a cataclysmic decline in the face of the collapse of key governance structures, and the replacement of a legitimate political administration with forcibly installed criminal gangs, Haiti has once again reared its head as the Caribbean Community’s ‘tear-away’ delinquent, in the face of mounting evidence that the country’s dire circumstances are, for now at least, outside the ‘control’ of the rest of the Community.

Part One The Rupununi in Region Nine ‘experiences’ two cut and dried weather seasons, a wet season from April to August and a dry one from September to March.

As Guyana continues to build its bona fides as one of the world’s leading oil producers, the government is seeking to increase the numbers of skilled workers employed in the sector.

Even as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries continue to seek ways to overcome what they have been pointedly told by various high profile international agencies is a regional food security crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has committed to helping the region find a way of alleviate the crisis by pledging new loans to boost the capacity of its agriculture sector.

The Bulgarian economist, Kristalina Georgieva, has been re-elected by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to serve a second five-year term as its Managing Director.

Even as we continue to delude ourselves through palliatives which suggest that globally, the world is experiencing incremental improvements in the global condition in which people live, the World Bank is releasing its own research-based findings that challenge the ‘things-are-getting-better’ notion that other schools of thought may be promoting.

Notwithstanding what a recent World Bank report says has been “significant progress” in economic stabilization in Latin America and the Caribbean over recent decades, the Bank’s recent assessment of the region, contained in a report made public earlier in April, is by no means oozing confidence about the overall immediate future of the economies of the region.

By Brooke Glasford On the heels of my last article talking about wearable technology, there is much to be said about our ability to adopt new things to our lifestyle here in Guyana.