Business

 It is not that Gillian James is indifferent to the fact that ready-made women’s attire now occupies its own fair share of both the global and local markets.

Officials occupying high profile public sector positions in other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) territories will probably be paying more than peripheral interest in this week’s earlier media report that Jamaica’s Integrity Commission has initiated criminal prosecutions against two of the island’s public officials for alleged breaches of the country’s Corruption Prevention Act.

In a matter of just over a week, the presidency of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will change hands with the  St.

Just over a year after the global community was thrown into a tailspin by the sudden, devastating visitation by the coronavirus pandemic, the planet has been delivered more bad news about the threatened intervention of a phenomenon that could pose a no less deadly threat to the well-being of the international community.

While international stock markets have shown recovery during the first quarter of this year, the same cannot be said about the six markets in the Caribbean including Barbados.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 22, 2021

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 911’s trading results showed consideration of $38,030,856 from 349,745 shares traded in 36 transactions as compared to session 910’s trading results which showed consideration of $12,658,404 from 158,220 shares traded in 14 transactions.

Not even the current COVID-19 global emergency to which there, as yet, appears to be no end in sight could distract United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres from sounding what, in diplomatic terms, was a resounding alarm in response to the just released World Meteorolo-gical Organization (WMO) State of the Global Climate Report.

The first ever comprehensive report of the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury continues to reflect the international body’s concern over the continued significant use of mercury in the gold mining sector even as it raises other searching global environmental issues.

Rudolph and Rosamund Benn are this week’s Stabroek Business “fruits and vegetables’ personalities.

Rawle Clarke lives and works at Coverden, a community situated along the East Bank, about forty-five minutes’ drive from Georgetown.

If it had even been suggested as recently as forty years ago that marijuana would not only have been legalised but come close to being deified in some of the soberest of circles around the world in 2021 and would have re-presented itself as a highly lucrative, globally popular commercial product, they may have had to suffer the humiliation of being ‘laughed off the planet’.

As part of the ongoing efforts of Caribbean countries to develop initiatives to respond to the multi-faceted development challenges, made worse in just over the past year by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Caribbean Export Development Agency has disclosed that it is partnering with the service industries sectors in five Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries to host a series of training programmes.

Abieke Hamilton is a Berbician, a mother, and as she puts it, a woman who over time has worn “many hats” and tried her hand at various pursuits.

While the consumption of fruits, on the whole, is generally regarded as a health-enhancing practice, not all fruits are “created equal,” so to speak… and while various interest groups have attached their own nutritional ratings to what they regard as “the world’s healthiest fruits,” the line-up of the ‘‘heavy hitters’ is, in large measure, near identical and the ‘most healthy’ fruits consistently bear familiar names.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday April 15, 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 910’s trading results showed consideration of $12,658,404 from 158,220 shares traded in 14 transactions as compared to session 909’s trading results which showed consideration of $892,232 from 8,749 shares traded in 7 transactions.