Refusing to surrender to the rampaging assault on their livelihoods by the ravages of COVID-19 the members of the Mocha Arcadia Multipurpose Agriculture Cooperative Society are set to stage their second Producers Market Day in two months on Sunday February 21, Chairman of the Society Raeburn Jones told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
Little Otter Candles, Jessica Alexander says, has emerged from her love for candles and home fragrances and out of many months of research into candle-making.
After being disappointed by Budget 2020 for its lack of direct support towards businesses, which have suffered tremendously from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the collective private sector anticipated with hope that Budget 2021 would contain comparable fiscal measures like the billions granted to households and public sector employees last year.
Developing countries including territories in Latin America and the Caribbean are likely to find the pace of their post COVID-19 recovery significantly compromised notwithstanding the fact that during 2020, a full calendar year of the pandemic, they attracted a record share of global foreign direct investment, according to Investment Trends Monitor published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) at the end of January this year.
STEM Guyana, the organization which dramatically raised the country’s technology profile by fielding teams that distinguished themselves at prestigious international robotics competitions in Washington and the United Arab Emirates, earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that it is preparing to distribute nearly 1000 lessons plans to parents & vulnerable students across the country.
A pleasing afternoon in the company of one of the current key players in what is almost certainly the most enduring eating house in contemporary Guyana, Clinton Urling, was sufficient to send a message that the onset of COVID-19 has done little to dampen the entrepreneurial spirit of the second-generation owners of German’s Restaurant.
It may have come as a surprise to some of the representatives of the mainstream private sector when representatives of the small business sector put in an appearance at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Monday to further make a case for far greater attention to be paid to their growth needs in order to better position them to, among other things, benefit from some of the promised spinoffs from the oil & gas sector and to otherwise consolidate their operations.
GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 902’s trading results showed consideration of $26,152,703 from 283,622 shares traded in 39 transactions as compared to session 901’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,605,378 from 76,114 shares traded in 38 transactions.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 18, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
Aspiring oil-producing developing countries like Guyana would do well to pay close interest to last Friday’s decision by Britain’s Supreme Court that clears the way for a group of Nigerian farmers to sue the Anglo-Dutch oil company, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, over pollution in a region of Nigeria where the energy giant operates an oil recovery subsidiary.
With the United Nations-designated International Year of Fruits & Vegetables (IYFV) now in its second month, Guyana, widely regarded as the regional leader in the agricultural sector, is yet to make public its official programme of activities to mark the country’s participation in what is being celebrated as a global event.
Notwithstanding the challenges occasioned by the advent of COVID-19 during much of 2020, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) is reporting an increase in the volume of its traditional agricultural exports with coconuts, pumpkin, watermelon, heart of palm, and eddo, leading the way.
Recent incidents suggest that Guyana has had to deal with incidents of both ‘importation’ of expired drugs and their use of such drugs in the public health system.
Even as Guyana continues to cast worried glances over its shoulder as the novel coronavirus continues to rage, evidence continues to surface of the emergence of opportunistic business initiatives across the country.
More than five years after bursting into the global oil & gas spotlight following the discovery by a consortium led by the US oil giant ExxonMobil of an excess of 8 billion barrels of oil off the country’s coast, the Guyanese populace as a whole still know shockingly little about the industry as a whole or about when or how the country will be impacted by the returns from a sector which we are told will remove the country from the condition of impoverishment in which it has been caught fast for more than half a century.
The changing face of Guyana as a place to do business is continually being manifested in the types of goods and services offered by providers that are moving to ‘put down roots’ here.
Former US President Donald Trump may have disappeared noisily into history but the sword of Damocles which he has left over the head of the Maduro administration in Venezuela remains dangling menacingly and Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, appears in no hurry to remove it.
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday February 11, 2021
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