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Stock Market

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1047’s trading results showed consideration of $6,229,188 from 33,138 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1046’s trading results, which showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions.

Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond (left) engaging a participant in the Guyexpo event
Tourism Minister Oneidge Walrond (left) engaging a participant in the Guyexpo event

‘Tryout’ exhibitors hopeful that GUYEXPO may be a game changer

Owners of small agro processing commercial ventures who participated in the November 16-19 GUYEXPO event at the Sophia Exhibition have told the Stabroek Business that they frequently “miss out” on publicly advertised opportunities to benefit from initiatives that can advance their businesses on account of their preoccupation with ‘making a living’ and their detachment from channels that connect them with those opportunities.

Bharrat Jagdeo

Eradicating gold smuggling no “walk in the park” – Mining sector source

Arising out of concerns raised by the Stabroek Business regarding the progress being made by the authorities in rolling back the smuggling of gold out of Guyana, a source with several years of experience of the sector has told this newspaper that the continued outflow of gold from Guyana and (mostly) into neighbouring countries is almost certainly occurring with the “full knowledge” of “people in authority” in Guyana.

In ‘oil rich’ Guyana… access to affordable small business borrowing still a challenge

In circumstances where small businesses in Guyana are still not exactly ‘going wild’ over the extent to which their growth ambitions are receiving sufficiently energetic backing from the country’s ‘high profile’ commercial banks in pursuit of the growth of their businesses, their counterpart Small Business Enterprise [SME’s] in Trinidad and Tobago would appear to be ‘singing a different tune.’

Barbados among 68 countries at Egypt trade fair

By Antoinette Connell Barbados joined 68 other countries in the third edition of the African continent elite Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2023, a showcase of the massive investment potential for billions through intra-Africa alliances.

Nedrad Joseph from Kamarang Warawatta Village, Region 7 makes school uniforms

Nedrad Joseph: A woman of substance

Small business owners who constantly fret over the hurdles one never fails to encounter in the pursuit of running a small business just about anywhere in coastal Guyana ought to interact more with their opposite numbers in hinterland communities in order to put their own circumstances into perspective.

Limiting global temperature: We’re not getting there

A week before the high profile global climate change forum gets underway in Dubai a new United Nations report on climate change has brought news that national climate action plans by countries across the world remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Trinidad Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopie - Scoon

Trade Minister wants greater focus on Commercial Diplomacy

Trinidad and Tobago may not be about to surrender its credentials as the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) member country with the most prominent petro-imprint on its economy, up to this time, though, that said, its ambition to ‘shine’ in the regional export sector, outside of oil and gas would appear to be altogether undiminished.

Nassau and our food security trek

In the weeks preceding the staging of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture  [CWA] in October no pains were spared across the region to ‘big up’ the event, coverage of its agenda suggesting that it might well be one of those regional events that might play a pivotal role in helping to turn the proverbial corner in the matter of shoring up what we were being told for several months were our shabby food security bona fides.

Stock Market

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1046’s trading results showed consideration of $2,391,660 from 9,040 shares traded in 6 transactions as compared to session 1045’s trading results, which showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions.

GuyExpo resuscitated

The resuscitation of GuyExpo last week following a hiatus of seven years was a commendable initiative given the fact that the optional avenues for product promotion for farm produce and their by-products have always been decidedly limited.

Venezuela ‘thriving’ on limited lift of US oil export sanctions

The seeming incremental lifting by the United States of sanctions which had been imposed on Venezuela’s oil exports tied to political differences with Washington has seemingly arrived at a point where some of the world’s major traders are returning to the source of some of the world’s largest oil reserves.

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1045’s trading results showed consideration of $32,702,158 from 97,947 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 1044’s trading results, which showed consideration of $13,416,027 from 56,217 shares traded in 14 transactions.

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