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If the Report deriving from the Forty-Seventh Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) held in Grenada in the wake of Hurricane Beryl is anything to go by, it would appear that the member countries of the regional movement are not prepared to simply take it ‘on the chin’ and move on.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1086s trading results showed consideration of $9,231,251 from 46,514 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 1085’s trading results which showed consideration of $8,338,854 from 37,041 shares traded in 18 transactions.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has proposed to the Board that Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Business consultant and agriculture lecturer Riyadh Mohammed believes that the struggle to keep food and grocery prices low is not just a problem that T&T faces but can be found in larger, more developed economies like the United States and other countries globally.

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The seemingly entrenched ‘divide’ between North and South that manifests itself, mostly, in a rich/poor divide and the failed efforts that have been made over decades by the South to narrow the gap, has once again been shoved to the front burner by Hurricane Beryl, more accurately, by the physical state in which the hurricane left large swathes of the region.

At a time when Guyana’s petro fortune continues to focus attention on the opportunities that it offers to external onlookers seeking to take advantage of local investment opportunities, Guyanese continue to ‘parade’ those openings across the sectors, seeking to attract external buy-ins through investments in local undertakings believed to have the potential to access lucrative international markets.

In circumstances where fellow Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, not least Guyana, have been accused of compromising the effectiveness of state institutions in pursuit of their substantive responsibilities, Trinidad and Tobago’s Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, according to the Trinidadian Guardian August 14, 2024 report, has been parading his country’s “strong checks and balances for good governance credentials” in a presentation at the recent 4th Dialogue on Governance for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) hotel in Port-of-Spain.

If Guyana’s giant neighbour to the south, Brazil, has won considerable global attention as much to the fact of its vast oil reserves as for the inclusion of a substantial chunk of the Amazon rainforest as part of its overall geographic space, the latter credential is not, universally, a virtue. 

Etched in the history of some of the earliest socio-economic links between Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, sugar may well be living on borrowed time as a fixture in (parts of) the region’s economy, except it undergoes a generous measure of reform, according to Веlіzе’ѕ Agriculture Minister, Jose Abelardo Mai.

Seemingly mindful that Trinidad and Tobago and much of the rest of the Caribbean are confronted with an existential food security threat that is accentuated by erratic weather patterns reposed in climate change, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr.

Ten students from Camille’s Academy are benefiting from the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (GCCI) Annual ‘Teenternship’ Programme 2024, which is aimed at providing them with practical experiences in the working environment in relation to leadership, teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and management.

There are strong indications among some countries in the Caribbean that the highly-touted regional objective of reducing extra regional food imports by 25% by 2025 is not anywhere close to being achievable in the wake of the setback in sections of the region’s agricultural sector deriving from Hurricane Beryl and the damage it wreaked in several CARICOM territories.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday August 22, 2024 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

GSE (https://guyanastockexchangeinc.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 1085’s trading results showed consideration of $8,338,854 from 37,041 shares traded in 18 transactions as compared to session 1084’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,761,889 from 10,123 shares traded in 35 transactions.

Beryl provides more reason for the region to hear from the food security ‘Lead Heads’ If in the light of recent events the Stabroek Business has decided to take yet another tilt at the issue of regional food security that is because we could not think of another more suitable issue to address in the wake of the intrusion of Hurricane Beryl and the further negative impact that it has had on food security in some territories even before she had made her rumbustious presence felt.

Some of the reportage emanating from the recently concluded 2024 International Building EXPO, staged at the Providence National Stadium, focused on the role played by the Guyana Office for Investment (GOINVEST) in the event.