Business

Communication technology a game-changer in urban, rural development divide: UN Report

The continual development of communication technology and more particularly the spread of internet services into what were once considered inaccessible regions of many developing countries is breathing new life into rural and other remote areas and refashioning perspectives for global development, a new report issued by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and titled ‘Reconsidering Rural Development’ says.

Kitco Market Data

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 27, 2021 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Stock Market Updates

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 916’s trading results showed consideration of $88,432,883 from 1,106,256 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 915’s trading results which showed consideration of $14,655,455 from 138,949 shares traded in 26 transactions.

Food security: Our governments are asleep at the wheel

In the course of the recent engagement between Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha and Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana Mark Berman during which – as reported in this issue of the Stabroek Business – the two talked up possibilities for the strengthening of relations between the two countries, Minister Mustapha, who is the serving Chairman of the Ministerial Task Force for advancing the agriculture agenda of the region, reportedly alluded to the current focus of the Task Force on producing a document on food security highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each member state, for submission to CARICOM Heads.

Ochro

Our Champion Vegetables

There appears to be literally no end to the wide assortment of champion vegetables that are widely cultivated in Guyana and Ochro, Okra, Okro or ‘Ladies Fingers’ (the tongue-twisting scientific name for Okra is Albelmoschus Esculentus) rank high on the list.

Poor diet helps ‘gift’ Caribbean highest hypertension rate in the Americas

A sharp reduction in the consumption of unhealthy foods, tobacco and alcohol use and diminished air pollution are among the priorities which the Caribbean must embrace urgently if the region is to shed the dubious distinction of having the highest mortality rate in the Americas resulting from cardiovascular disease, the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Public Health Association (CARPHA) is saying.

Stock market update

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 915’s trading results showed consideration of $14,655,455 from 138,949 shares traded in 26 transactions as compared to session 914’s trading results which showed consideration of $3,718,273 from 22,456 shares traded in 21 transactions.

The Ministry of Agriculture and IYFV

This is not the first occasion on which the Stabroek Business has made a pointed editorial comment on Guyana’s failure, up until now, to take any sort of initiative to speak of, to mark the United Nations-designated International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV).

Latin America, Caribbean top 2020 remittance receipts – World Bank Brief

Fears expressed during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Caribbean, among other regions, would have to endure a protracted period of significantly reduced remittances proved unfounded as officially recorded remittance flows to low and middle income countries reached US$540 billion in 2020, reflecting a less than anticipated 1.6 per cent decline against the 2019 figure of $548 billion, according to the World Bank’s most recent Migration and Development Brief.

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