Business

As COVID-19 persists, small and micro businesses in Guyana continue to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts its effects.

As Latin America and the Caribbean continue to peer tentatively into the coronavirus dark tunnel of uncertainty, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has hit the region with more gloomy news regarding its projected economic performance in the period ahead.

The Stabroek Business had met the two long-standing Charlestown Secondary School friends, Donella Long and Mariah Baker, late last year when their then thriving Professional Waiter Service enterprise with the catchy trading name of The Balance was establishing itself as a classy waiter service. 

It would probably take a great deal of persuasion, even in an era when there are far fewer workplace gender barriers than had been the case a decade or two ago, to cause one to believe that a modern plywood manufacturing company, the largest such enterprise in the Caribbean, has placed its operating reins in the hands of a woman.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 13, 2020

The fact that last week’s first meeting between Presidents Ali and Santokhi has come this early in both their tenures is the best possible beginning for bilateral relations between Guyana and Suriname under two new political administrations.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 875’s trading results showed consideration of $7,285,038 from 91,295 shares traded in 15 transactions as compared to session 874’s trading results which showed consideration of $1,827,276 from 14,130 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Dhaniram Ramchand’s pursuits in the world of agriculture take him beyond simply cultivating and marketing food.

How to create viable business enterprises out of hinterland-based ‘hustles’ designed, in the first instance, to foster a measure of self-reliance in communities with strictly limited employment options, is a challenge that Guyana is yet to overcome.

GEB Security Services rewards its high achievers On July 24 last, one of the country’s longest serving security services, GEB Security Services Inc, held its Annual Award Presentation Ceremony for its guards and officers during which a number of persons received monetary awards in six categories for salutary performances. 

A combination of worsening global poverty and the particular challenges arising out of the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic could push more than over 130 million more people into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, published in July warns.

At Moco Moco Village in Region Nine, Central Rupununi, opportunities for sustainable employment are few. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 874’s trading results showed consideration of $1,827,276 from 14,130 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 873’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,079,395 from 61,435 shares traded in 15 transactions.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Our ongoing editorial focus on small businesses in agriculture, agro processing and on hinterland business ventures (gold being the notable exception here) is that we believe that setting aside its other pursuits the media have a responsibility to stand behind these enterprises at a time when the repercussions of COVID-19 threaten their survival and by extension, the welfare of the owners and their dependents.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 6, 2020

The current trials of the fifteen year-old Hosororo Hill, Region One, Blue Flame Women’s Group is a typical example of the plight of many of the centres of economic activity in Guyana’s interior communities where a passion for entrepreneurship continues to be undermined by logistical blockages and official sloth in creating conditions more convivial to their growth.