The imminent arrival of the Carnival season in Trinidad & Tobago would appear to be posing challenges for the twin-island Republic’s Police Force on account of the seeming emergence of some of the customary ‘windup’ revelry that usually precedes the full-blown main course.
Oil & gas sectors in various countries have long been a strategic target for insurgents seeking to undermine the economies of political administrations to which they are opposed, a reality to which several countries in the Middle East can attest.
A new report by five key United Nations agencies has painted a worrying picture on the likely state of food security and nutrition, going forward, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Jamaica Gleaner has reported that the island’s Accountant General’s Department has been placed under the microscope following revelations that dead persons have been ‘drawing down’ millions of dollars in pensions up to seven months after they have died.
(caribbeanbusinessreport) Oil producer Apache Corporation and its joint venture partner Total SA have announced their fourth discovery of oil offshore Suriname.
What had been, up to late last year, something of a resurgence of Venezuela’s oil exports, due primarily to clandestine shipping arrangements targeting the Chinese markets (and circumventing United States sanctions in the process) has been taking a tumble since early this month, according to reports from Bloomberg.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 14, 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 897’s trading results showed consideration of $92,136,819 from 1,134,994 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 896’s trading results which showed consideration of $194,765,851 from 2,238,868 shares traded in 19 transactions.
This newspaper well remembers the May 2019 passage in the National Assembly of those key amendments to the 2003 Procurement Act which (we had thought) paved the way for suitably equipped small businesses to have access to 20% of state contracts.
The available evidence continues to make a pretty strong case for asserting that the extent to which the major Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) consider themselves to be responsible for overseeing in a meaningful way the steady growth and development of micro and small businesses is strictly limited.
Realistic hope for meaningful improvement in the global economy this year will hinge on the extent to which efforts to roll back and even halt the further spread on the coronavirus gain meaningful momentum, the World Bank says in its January 2021 Global Economic Prospects Report published earlier this week.
Like hundreds of other Guyanese who have been operating modest business enterprises during 2020, Vasil Wood believes that the experience of having to do business in the destabilising environment of COVID-19 may well have taken him to a critical fork in his entrepreneurial road.
A limited survey amongst shoppers in the Bourda and East La Penitence municipal markets just prior to Christmas found consumer dispositions to the pumpkin fruit ranging from an I-can-take-it-or-leave-it posture to revelations that pumpkin is a routine part of their diets.
Like so many facets of life in so many places around the world, the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in Jamaica have the COVID-19 pandemic to thank for cutting short and, in fact, overturning the promising growth spurt with which they started 2020.The
Just how indifferent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have been, over a protracted period in aggressively attending to issues that have a critical bearing on the food security issues which most of them have been facing for several years is reflected in the fact that a decade after the regional movement appeared to paying a high level of what turned out to be little more than lip service to crop insurance in its agricultural sector, one of their number appears to placing the issue on its domestic agricultural agenda again.
The International Data Corporation (IDC), one of the world’s leading global providers of market intelligence, advisory services, and events linked to the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, is projecting that the year ahead will continue to be shaped by “the disruptive forces of COVID-19,” which it says has already changed “everything across all verticals now and into the future.”
Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 07, 2021
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