Business

As is customarily the case with commemorative events that have a bearing on the consolidation of a sound, national, entrepreneurial culture, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2021, which is being observed from Monday, November 8 to Sunday November 14, has not, up to this time, been attended by a programme of events, or initiative, planned by either government or the private sector.

Over seven decades, the Government Technical Institute (GTI) has all too frequently, missed out on both the recognition and the incremental enhancements that it has merited.

Stabroek Business has learnt that several Guyanese businesses have already registered for the November    17th & 18th Florida International Trade Expo which will, among other things, bring together manufacturers and potential buyers from parts of the United States and the Caribbean.

Guyanese women who, often against considerable odds, persist in seeking to transform their passion for the art and craft industry into thriving business ventures can draw inspiration from the pursuits of Haitian American entrepreneur Yelitsa Jean-Charles, the founder of the US company, Healthy Roots Dolls, who disclosed recently that her dolls are now sold at the 1,200 Target stores across the United States and are also available online.

By Gita Gopinath The global recovery continues but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic.

Christine Gittens is one of a continually emerging group of Guyanese women whose entrepreneurial instincts are pushing them to investigate the science of plants that can be found across the far reaches of Guyana with a view to pressing these into service as what, these days, are described as ‘natural products,’ but which, not many moons ago were referred to as ‘bush cures’ or ‘bush remedies’.

With the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP 26 – scheduled to begin in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in two days, international news networks are publishing reports of what they claim is a likely conspiracy by some of the ‘heavy hitters’ in the global fossil fuel industry to seek to downplay the extent of what climate scientists say is an unfolding global climate change crisis.

With plastics pollution and its multi-faceted consequences having long emerged as a major global environmental challenge, a new United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) assessment is now pointing to the likelihood of the problem becoming twice as bad in less than a decade.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 7, 2021          Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

With the sudden and globally devastating advent of the COVID-19 pandemic having cruelly exposed the weaknesses of the health sector in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) Council on the Economics of Health for All is advocating with a renewed sense of urgency that clear and ambitious goals be set for mobilising investments towards financing for health as a long-term investment rather than a short-term cost.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 938’s trading results showed consideration of $17,018,848 from 94,450 shares traded in 24 transactions as compared to session 937’s trading results which showed consideration of $6,577,550 from 46,645 shares traded in 16 transactions.

The advent of COVID-19 and the resulting enhanced level of public concern has been primarily responsible for what is believed to be a healthier food safety environment, according to the outcomes of a mini survey undertaken by the Stabroek Business among food vendors operating mostly in Georgetown and a handful of communities outside the capital.

Against the backdrop of increasing debate in the region over considerations that include a continually rising food import bill and increased health-related challenges arising out of what is believed to be unhealthy dietary choices, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has used World Food Day, October 16, to seek to focus the attention of the region on the importance of infusing food-related issues more pointedly into regional public policy contemplations.

There is something in the appearance of Quintasia Whyte – ‘Queen Whyte’ as she refers to herself in her promotional blurb – that is deceptively ordinary, as if beyond an evidently creative spirit sits the persona of a genuine ‘home girl.’

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) may still be imprisoned in a condition of inertia in the matter of embracing a collective initiative to shore up its food security and reduce its mammoth food security bill, but as has become customary in the region, individual countries are sometimes inclined to make gestures which customarily fall short of going ‘the whole nine yards’ in terms of becoming a building block on which the edifice of a food-secure Caribbean will stand.

While it has been known for decades that the sustained recovery of fossil fuels has militated against scientific efforts to properly assess just where the world is going insofar as climate change is concerned, the picture has changed dramatically in recent years… to a point where confident predictions are being proffered with regard to the rate at which fossil fuel recovery must decelerate in the period ahead lest the world drifts into the zone of a climate catastrophe.

A besieged Venezuelan economy has receive a sorely needed vote of confidence from the Swiss financial institution Credit Suisse, which says the country’s economic travails notwithstanding, it is likely to grow by 5.5% this year.