Business

The Massy Group of Companies of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that it is making available more than US$1 million to develop and deliver programmes to entrepreneurs across the Caribbean.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 8, 2019

The recent release by the Ministry of Public Works of a statement on the subject of an “Update on Emergency Repairs to MV Kimbia & MV Barima” indicates that “remedial works” on the two vessels “are still ongoing and will be completed soon.”

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 899’s trading results showed consideration of $72,180,515 from 870,482 shares traded in 33 transactions as compared to session 898’s trading results which showed consideration of $74,718,149 from 881,469 shares traded in 41 transactions.

Guyana may not be ranked amongst the global elite insofar as the agriculture and agro-processing industries are concerned, but the international portents provide good reason for unbridled optimism regarding the potential of those sectors to contribute significantly to the growth of the country’s economy.

Even as the World Health Organization (WHO) steps up its appeal to rich countries – collectively referred to as ‘the North’ to separate them for the greater number of poor countries – to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccines,   Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries rated in the global rich/poor classification as part of the ‘South’, are calling for an urgent all-inclusive international forum to address the issue of the equitable distribution of vaccinations associated with pushing back the virus.

Since 1999 the Mckenzie ‘clan’ have piloted a family firm named Sun Crest Farms Inc, through a local business climate that can throw up challenges with metronomic regularity.

The United Nations has declared 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables.

If the Georgetown-based Caribbean Community Secretariat has not been exactly ‘hogging the headlines’ insofar as its role in the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned, it appears that the Secretariat is very much in the ‘thick of things’ in terms of coordinating the work of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) insofar as the ongoing engagements pertaining to the recovery of the region from the impact of the virus on its respective economies are concerned.

Recent and ongoing reports suggest that Caribbean tourism officials are pulling out all the stops to increase COVID-19 testing capacity in the shortest possible time following the decision by the United States to require nearly all arriving passengers to present a negative test within 72 hours of departure.

With world-class oil finds in Guyana and Suriname already having attracted much more than the peripheral attention of the international community, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is beginning to draw an even greater measure of oil-related attention to itself on account of the recent revelation that Jamaica’s potential oil reserves could be as much as tenfold the level of previous estimates, according to a recent detailed study.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 21 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 898’s trading results showed consideration of $74,718,149 from 881,469 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 897’s trading results which showed consideration of $92,136,819 from 1,134,994 shares traded in 41 transactions.

A recent visit to the ‘spread’ of a fruit farmer in Berbice revealed a phenomenon that is almost certain to shock those of us whose day-to-day experiences do not bring us into contact with the general environment associated with fruit farming.

John’s Cake Decoration & Bakery Service is a modest home-based enterprise, a typical local micro-business, run from 347 Recht-door-Zee, La Parfaite Harmonie.

The possible long-term socio-economic impact of the protracted absence of the majority of the region’s children from school could be sufficient to require countries to rethink their entire education systems by creating linkages between education and other sectors and placing the highest possible priority on the protection of education budgets, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in its Latin America and the Caribbean COVID-19  policy document.

The Stabroek Business’ ongoing journalistic interventions into the ‘goings on’ in the lives of the proprietors of many of the country’s micro and small businesses continues to reveal that even as the business environment changes some of them are falling back on past pursuits in order to see themselves through the current challenges.