The Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries (A roadmap for the Caribbean’s energy transition)
Caribbean countries are in a desperate need of an energy transition, the think-thank Atlantic Council has stated.
Caribbean countries are in a desperate need of an energy transition, the think-thank Atlantic Council has stated.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – French energy company EDF Renewables yesterday said it will withdraw from a solar energy project in central Colombia due to delays in permits, as well as regulatory and tax changes.
Oct 2 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s oil exports in September topped 800,000 barrels per day (bpd), the second highest monthly average this year, as state-run oil firm PDVSA and its joint ventures recovered output, particularly in the Orinoco Belt.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 5, 2023
Guyana’s agro processing sector is favourably positioned to step up way above where it is at this time.
A University of the West Indies lecturer with whom the Stabroek Business spoke with last week whilst viewing an indigenous culinary and craft display on Main Street Avenue made the point that up until now Guyana had failed, “and signally so,” to properly embrace what he described as “valuable” indigenous skills and creativity to bear within the country’s entrepreneurial mainstream.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that skilled indigenous craftsmen and women are seeking to extend their ambitions beyond simply parading their talents to provide coastal admirers with access to their work through seasonal bazaars at absurdly ‘knocked down’ prices.
About a week ago, sections of the regional media delivered news that the Assistant Director General and Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), had addressed the opening function of the “High-Level Agricultural Ministerial Meeting” held in Kingston, Jamaica on September 18.
Engaging craftsmen and women above the din of the music blaring from speakers mounted on a giant truck on Main Street last Saturday evening felt, at times, like ‘sheer torture.’
Preparations are in full swing for 17th staging of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture (CWA), the Caribbean Region’s premier agricultural event, in The Bahamas, 9 -13 October 2023.
Washington, having been instrumental in deploying mostly sanctions to degrade Venezuela’s oil and gas industry, the administration of United States’ President Joe Biden appears to be mindful that it does not preside over the complete collapse of the energy sector of the country believed to possess the asingle largest volume of oil reserves anywhere in the world.
The earliest public disclosure on Guyana’s first confirmed oil ‘strike’ by ExxonMobil back in 2015, was, without question, one of the most significant pieces of public information to be disseminated to Guyanese in the country’s history.
The constantly enhancing petro profiles of Guyana and Suriname continues to impact positively on the international attention which the two countries, regarded up until recently as being among the forgotten territories in South America, are now attracting in global oil and gas circles.
With due respect to what, these days, appears to be a preference in the Caribbean for endless ‘sit downs’ on the issue of regional food security, the point where the outcomes of these fora goes nowhere has long been reached.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1038’s trading results showed consideration of $4,569,575 from 10,602 shares traded in 23 transactions as compared to session 1037’s trading results, which showed consideration of $40,763,815 from 151,387 shares traded in 20 transactions.
Less than a week after the Stabroek Business had published a story alluding to Suriname falling behind Guyana in what had been seen for some time as a race between the two countries for first oil, (Suriname’s ‘delayed’ oil breakthrough delaying bilateral ambitions with neighbouring Guyana – Stabroek Business Friday September 15, 203), the French oil company brought the country the ‘good tidings’ that it is on the verge of commencing what another media report has described as “development studies for a large oil project offshore the country” which is scheduled to commence before year end and which it says is expected to position the country for first production in 2028.
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