Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the small business ventures with which we have established excellent relationships over the past five years or so and which have been the subjects of weekly reports in the Stabroek Business appear to have ‘gone to ground,’ so to speak, that is to say that what used to be the practice of regularly “checking in” with the newspaper has disappeared. This, frankly, does not surprise us given the suddenness with which COVID-19 descended and the haste with which many of our small business owners had to adjust both their business and their living arrangements.