Business

GMSA and gov’t meeting on small business issues should be hastened

After he had made an undisguised ‘pitch’ on Thursday, August 3, at the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) Dinner and Awards Ceremony for the GMSA to engage government on the issue of the private sector body interfacing with the state-run Small Business Bureau (SBB), GMSA President, Ramsay Ali, had told the Stabroek Business that there had been an expectation that such a meeting was likely to have taken place “in two weeks’ time.”

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1036’s trading results showed consideration of $44,440,786 from 73,329 shares traded in 40 transactions as compared to session 1035’s trading results, which showed consideration of $9,528,106 from 38,608 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Tourism Authority rolls out a suite of sectorial training for service providers

Seemingly mindful of the fact that Guyana’s visitor arrival bona fides needs to keep pace with what, these days, is an enhanced external interest in Guyana, the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) earlier this week issued a lengthy media statement in which it sets out the suite of conveniences and attractions that it continues to put in place in order to keep pace with the demands of both visitors as well as ordinary Guyanese seeking a taste of the tourism amenities that the country has to offer.

Oil exploration in Namibia

Namibia’s turn?

Just weeks before international media reports began singling out Namibia as the likely next global ‘big deal’ in the oil and gas sector, reports of an intervention by Brazil to boost food access for the vulnerable Southern African state was appearing in sections of the international media.

Presence and patronage

Heritage Month and Entrepreneurship

While these Department of Public Information (DPI) pictures provide an eye-catching glimpse of the talents of our Amerindian communities, and more particularly, insightful images of their lives and their livelihoods, conversations with those creative individuals and groups that have journeyed from their homes in the various communities to be part of the Heritage programme this year revealed by mainstream media, may still be decidedly ‘off the pace’ insofar as the real significance of their participation in the event.

Nicolas Maduro

Dragon and diplomacy

Seemingly keen to be re-elected to office when the United States goes to the polls in November next year (the now increasing references to his age and his suitability for another tilt at the White House, notwithstanding) President Joe Biden is aware of the fact that a few eye-catching accomplishments on the foreign policy front are is unlikely to hurt his chances.

No longer a man’s world

Bourda Market

Much of the ‘hustle and bustle’ associated with aspects of commercial life in the capital is linked to the ‘goings on’ in and around our Municipal Markets………..Bourda

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Gold prices

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 7, 2023

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1035’s trading results showed consideration of $9,528,106 from 38,608 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 1034’s trading results, which showed consideration of $4,920,007 from 7,345 shares traded in 20 transactions.

Guyana should sign on to CDB small business training initiative

With significant sections of the population in the Caribbean opting for entrepreneurial pursuits over salaried jobs, or else, pursuing small business undertakings to supplement pre—-existing salaried jobs, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is opening up more training support opportunities for the region’s substantive and emerging entrepreneurs.

Invest Caribbean joins The Caribbean Export Team For CIF 2023

Two regional institutions dedicated to expanding the investment tapestry of the region have joined forces to participate in this year’s Caribbean investment Forum (CIF) through the pooling of their collective energies and resources into the high profile initiative designed to boost the investment profile of the Caribbean.

‘“New Guyana”: Huge oil finds trigger dreams in Namibia

‘New Guyana’ making waves as next global oil hotspot

Namibia could be on the threshold of becoming the world’s next eye-catching oil discovery ‘hot spot’ as the country continues to ‘turn in’ several major discoveries and to promise more, a circumstance that has caused the Southern Africa territory to be dubbed the ‘new Guyana,” according to an August 23 article written by Energy Writer Felicity Bradstock (Namibia’s Oil And Gas Sector Sparks Global Investment Rush) and published by oilprice.com

Washington seeking a ‘deal’ on free and fair elections in Venezuela

The Biden administration in Washington appears determined to ensure that it does not entirely cut adrift Venezuela, the country reportedly possessing the largest volumes of oil anywhere in the world, even as it seeks to persuade the country’s President, Nicolas Maduro, that free and fair elections, when the country next goes to the polls would be in its best interests.

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