Business

One of the Pomeroon’s best-known female farmers, Rosemund Benn, has found her entrepreneurial calling in the manufacturing sector.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – In 1973, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries brought the U.S.

Aiming it says, to offer customers service “in a high-tech-low-touch atmosphere in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic” Metro Office and Computer Supplies has announced the launch of its website and e-commerce platform, with effect from August 20.

(Trinidad Guardian) Australian Outfit BHP Billiton has discovered between 5 and 6.6 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas in T&T’s deepwater, according to Energy Minister Franklin Khan.

Seeking, it says, to breathe new life into its operations here, the Jamaican-owned gambling establishment, Supreme Ventures Guyana Holdings, says that it has set March 2021 as a timeline for recovery from the shaky start to its operations which commenced here in 2019.

Stock market updates GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 880’s trading results showed consideration of $4,294,871 from 42,938 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 879’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,967,093 from 97,893 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Average Wholesale & Retail Prices at Rural and Urban Markets                  *Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana Marketing Corporation or Ministry of Agriculture.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 17, 2020  Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

When COVID-19 struck Sandra Craig, the proprietor of SS Natural Fruit Flavors and one of the country’s more dynamic coastal agro-processors, she was in the middle of contemplating a major leap forward.

Even after poor countries with their abundance of oil & gas and other natural resources experience the thrill of discovery and exploitation, the road to accessing what they consider to be their fair share of those resources,  is still often strewn with formidable obstacles, as both Guyana and Papua New Guinea (PNG) are finding out.

Just six months after the establishment of a resident office here, Global Compliance Service Guyana Inc, the local operational office of the Geneva-headquartered International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Certification Body, Global Compliance Service (GCS), has successfully completed its first ISO certification process here.

The advent of the coronavirus has compelled significant shifts in the Stabroek Business’ coverage of micro- and small-business enterprises, our editorial attention now focussed to a greater extent on their coping capabilities and on the extent to which they have been able to sustain and even grow their levels of patronage in this challenging period.

By James M. Roberts Reprinted from The National Interest The battle for the future of economic freedom in Guyana is being waged right now.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy giant bpTT has been given a 10-year extension on 92 of its exploration and production licences in the Columbus Basin.

Eastern Caribbean countries are reportedly finding the Caribbean Development Bank’s recently developed Enhanced Country Poverty Assessment (eCPA) toolkit more than useful in supporting responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, information emanating from the Bank suggests.

One may not have thought that this was a particularly propitious time for the opening of what, by Guyana standards, is a fairly significant investment in the fast-food industry, particularly at a time when the erratic performance of the coronavirus continues to create sufficient uncertainty as to induce a generous measure of caution, even uncertainty, in the business community.

Last week’s reinstatement of a 12-hour curfew by the one-month old People’s Progressive Party/Civic political administration is being reported in the Sunday September 6 Caribbean Business Report as a microcosm of a wider ‘running for cover’ by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries that had, just a few weeks ago, moved to return to conditions of normalcy after it had appeared that the intensity associated with the earliest wave of the pandemic had somewhat abated.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba will soon devalue the peso’s one-to-one exchange rate with the U.S.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 10, 2020 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.