Seeking, it seems, to mount a response to the increasing criticism being levelled at the global oil & gas sector in response to the linkage between fossil fuels and what the global environmental lobby says continues to be an alarmingly degraded environment, a high profile associate in SCF Partners, a US-based energy service company, had been seeking to mount a pushback against what he says has been the “demonizing of oil and gas,” contending that it could take up to three decades for alternatives to be developed to replace the product.
The Sonia Noel Foundation, the organization responsible for the planning and Execution of the annual Women in Business event has announced that this year’s event will now be staged on Saturday April 4th and Sunday April 5th, effectively a postponement from the March 21-22 period that had been set.
• Guyana, Latin America oil earnings will take a hit too
The international oil and gas industry, the life-blood of business and commerce globally has bowed to the impact of the dreaded Coronavirus by announcing earlier this week that it was calling off a number of its key networking events, including its various technical and academic meetings and resorting instead to virtual conferences, a decision which a Reuters report which appeared earlier this week said was taken in response to mounting concern about the virus and what the report said was now its “fast-growing toll”.
Our story in this issue of the Stabroek Business arising out of some of what is currently being reported on the impact so far of the globally worrying Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the manner in which it has been impacting globally in the region and in neighbouring countries, is timed to raise awareness of the malady and to help alert the authorities as much as the general populace to the fact that we too are vulnerable.
*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.
GASCI (Guyana Association of Securities Companies and Intermdeiacies) reports that session 868’s trading results showed consideration of $9,065,090 from 68,198 shares traded in 19 transactions as compared to session 867’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,325,437 from 24,345 shares traded in 11 transactions.
It would appear, given the fact that there had already been reports of cases of the Coronavirus elsewhere in the Caribbean, that Guyanese, as we are inclined to do in these situations, had pre-empted the arrival of the malady here.
If it is a well-known fact that race-based politics attended by election-time tensions have historically been par for the course on Guyana’s political landscape, regional and national elections here have never, hitherto, attracted much more than passing attention from the international community.
Outgoing Agriculture Minister Noel Holder on Saturday told attendees at the commissioning ceremony for the new Parika Agro Processing entity that the opening of the state-run facility will better position the country’s agro-processing sector to raise its game by consolidating its impact on the international market.
If the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill Campus gets its way, employers across the Caribbean may find themselves under greater pressure than they are at this time to pay attention to workplace wellness as part of their obligation to their employees.
This year’s Women in Business event, which will be staged on Friday March 20th and Saturday March 21st at the Pegasus Hotel seems set to mobilize women from all walks of life, determined to take their entrepreneurial pursuits to the ‘next level.’
ExxonMobil which is currently conducting one of its biggest oil exploration and recovery operations offshore Guyana, has reportedly released a model framework for industry-wide methane regulations.
From the standpoint of its ‘graduation’ from the status of a condition in which possession of even tiny quantities of the substance could result in brushes with the law, to its current status of having now been widely embraced as a highly regarded medical tool, cannabis has travelled leagues in a relatively short time.