Even as the World Health Organization (WHO) steps up its appeal to rich countries – collectively referred to as ‘the North’ to separate them for the greater number of poor countries – to stop hoarding COVID-19 vaccines, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member countries rated in the global rich/poor classification as part of the ‘South’, are calling for an urgent all-inclusive international forum to address the issue of the equitable distribution of vaccinations associated with pushing back the virus.
Since 1999 the Mckenzie ‘clan’ have piloted a family firm named Sun Crest Farms Inc, through a local business climate that can throw up challenges with metronomic regularity.
Vegetable cultivation on the Essequibo coast in Guyana
If the Georgetown-based Caribbean Community Secretariat has not been exactly ‘hogging the headlines’ insofar as its role in the regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic is concerned, it appears that the Secretariat is very much in the ‘thick of things’ in terms of coordinating the work of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) insofar as the ongoing engagements pertaining to the recovery of the region from the impact of the virus on its respective economies are concerned.
Recent and ongoing reports suggest that Caribbean tourism officials are pulling out all the stops to increase COVID-19 testing capacity in the shortest possible time following the decision by the United States to require nearly all arriving passengers to present a negative test within 72 hours of departure.
With world-class oil finds in Guyana and Suriname already having attracted much more than the peripheral attention of the international community, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is beginning to draw an even greater measure of oil-related attention to itself on account of the recent revelation that Jamaica’s potential oil reserves could be as much as tenfold the level of previous estimates, according to a recent detailed study.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 21 2021
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GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 898’s trading results showed consideration of $74,718,149 from 881,469 shares traded in 41 transactions as compared to session 897’s trading results which showed consideration of $92,136,819 from 1,134,994 shares traded in 41 transactions.
A recent visit to the ‘spread’ of a fruit farmer in Berbice revealed a phenomenon that is almost certain to shock those of us whose day-to-day experiences do not bring us into contact with the general environment associated with fruit farming.
John’s Cake Decoration & Bakery Service is a modest home-based enterprise, a typical local micro-business, run from 347 Recht-door-Zee, La Parfaite Harmonie.
The possible long-term socio-economic impact of the protracted absence of the majority of the region’s children from school could be sufficient to require countries to rethink their entire education systems by creating linkages between education and other sectors and placing the highest possible priority on the protection of education budgets, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in its Latin America and the Caribbean COVID-19 policy document.
The Stabroek Business’ ongoing journalistic interventions into the ‘goings on’ in the lives of the proprietors of many of the country’s micro and small businesses continues to reveal that even as the business environment changes some of them are falling back on past pursuits in order to see themselves through the current challenges.
The imminent arrival of the Carnival season in Trinidad & Tobago would appear to be posing challenges for the twin-island Republic’s Police Force on account of the seeming emergence of some of the customary ‘windup’ revelry that usually precedes the full-blown main course.
Oil & gas sectors in various countries have long been a strategic target for insurgents seeking to undermine the economies of political administrations to which they are opposed, a reality to which several countries in the Middle East can attest.
A new report by five key United Nations agencies has painted a worrying picture on the likely state of food security and nutrition, going forward, in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Jamaica Gleaner has reported that the island’s Accountant General’s Department has been placed under the microscope following revelations that dead persons have been ‘drawing down’ millions of dollars in pensions up to seven months after they have died.
(caribbeanbusinessreport) Oil producer Apache Corporation and its joint venture partner Total SA have announced their fourth discovery of oil offshore Suriname.
What had been, up to late last year, something of a resurgence of Venezuela’s oil exports, due primarily to clandestine shipping arrangements targeting the Chinese markets (and circumventing United States sanctions in the process) has been taking a tumble since early this month, according to reports from Bloomberg.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday January 14, 2021
Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
