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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 913’s trading results showed consideration of $1,683,338 from 4,550 shares traded in 3 transactions as compared to session 912’s trading results which showed consideration of $9,113,558 from 104,987 shares traded in 13 transactions.

One of our stories in this week’s edition of the Stabroek Business concerns the unfolding progress of the already considerably successful Jamaica Producers’ Group, (JPG) which, based on the contents of its performance profile, would appear to be among the ‘high fliers’ in the country’s agricultural sector and agro-processing sectors.

What has been reported in sections of the media as a strong interest by India, the world’s third largest consumer and importer of crude oil, in establishing a long-term agreement to buy a portion of its oil supplies from Guyana, is being seen in global oil circles as a flexing of what, these days, is its considerable muscle in the oil industry.

These are not Ji Eshwar Chandra’s best days. Over the past several weeks, the Aurora, Essequibo Coast shade house farmer has had to endure the agony of watching much of his produce go un-reaped because, he says, “markets have dried up.”

Vegetables are mankind’s most affordable source of vitamins and minerals needed for good health.

Our “Fruits and Vegetables Personality” this week is Kisoondyal Samdass, a grandfather of seventeen.

Will the world be able to feed 28 per cent more people by 2050?

As the English-speaking Caribbean continues to endure its multi-faceted socio-economic challenges made worse in recent times by the scourge of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies Sir Hilary Beckles is calling for a payback for the historic contribution made by the English-speaking countries of the region to the development of the hemisphere.

Confronted with an annual food import bill in the region of US$5 billion and seemingly possessed of a viable collective regional policy for significantly reducing that bill, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have reportedly signalled their robust support for an intra-regional consultation ahead of September’s United Nations Food Summit in New York where food security is expected to be high on the agenda.

Guyana, like no place else in the Caribbean enjoys a bounty of ‘super vegetables’ which we often take for granted.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 29, 2021

So far have we travelled from the condition of national euphoria that attended the May 2015 announcement by ExxonMobil that the Liza-1 oil well in the Stabroek block had yielded the first ‘world class’ oil find offshore Guyana, that last Tuesday’s revelation by the same company that it had had made the country’s nineteenth major oil find barely provoked a murmur from the country as a whole. 

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 912’s trading results showed consideration of $9,113,558 from 104,987 shares traded in 13 transactions as compared to session 911’s trading results which showed consideration of $38,030,856 from 349,745 shares traded in 36 transactions.

Sebai is a riverine community in the Matarkai sub-district of Region One, Barima-Waini.

This week’s IYFG spotlight falls on Damian ‘farmer man’ Bacchus. Two decades ago he left masonry behind and decided to ‘look to the land.’

Even as an increasing number of poor countries begin to celebrate oil finds and the prospects for economic transformation that could inhere therein, a global environmental lobby continues to move in a direction that could undermine if not shatter altogether the dreams of the oil wealth hopefuls.

It is almost certainly not the easiest job in the world to find a vegetable called by as many as four names, depending on the culture in which you locate it.