As a combination of a sectoral performance crisis coupled with unrelenting US economic pressure continually reduces Venezuela’s once powerhouse oil & gas sector to the status of an unreliable economic asset, pressure to find options is reportedly compelling the country, increasingly, to look to gold as an economic life raft.
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Latin American and Caribbean countries are being urged by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to adopt “immediate strategies” in an effort to respond to what it says is likely to be a toll of jobs losses in the region higher than that previously estimated.
While several businesses in the regional entertainment sector continue to offer limited and intermittent services that help to keep business afloat during the rampage of the coronavirus pandemic, for the country’s cinema industry it is a question of whether it can get anywhere close to the end of the present long, dark tunnel, far less see light at the other end.
Chief Executive Officer Nand Persaud and Company Ltd, Mahendra Persaud, told the Stabroek Business in an interview earlier this week that Guyana could well find itself in a position where its export capabilities become seriously compromised on account of what he says is an image of the country that has been fashioned out of the belief that it is a high risk insofar as the ‘export’ of illegal drugs is concerned.
LONDON, (Reuters) – World oil demand will plateau in the late 2030s and could by then have begun to decline, OPEC said yesterday, in a major shift for the producer group that reflects the lasting impact of the coronavirus crisis on the economy and consumer habits.
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State and non-state agencies responsible for the production of goods exported from Guyana and by extension, for helping to boost the country’s foreign exchange earnings are expected to benefit in the immediate term from the Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department’s (GA-FDD) Inspectorate Division’s newly acquired international accreditation.
It’s difficult to think of a more strategically important spot in Georgetown on which to establish a small restaurant that offers a range of the most popular local creole foods along with the option of either dining-in, utilizing the strictly limited facilities that it provides or otherwise, taking away or having your food delivered to you.
However hard we try, it is difficult to think of an international industry that has been harder hit by COVID-19 than the airline industry.
With the United States presidential elections drawing inexorably closer, the Trump administration has now evidently fixed its foreign policy radar unmistakably on the hemisphere, mindful of its understanding of the role that key constituencies can play in determining whether or not he will be favoured with a second term in office.
The recent acquisition of a critical technical accreditation capability from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) by the Government Analyst-Food & Drug Department (GA-FDD) is a major achievement for Guyana, the proportions of which cannot be adequately measured through the publicity we give such an achievement through the media, Director of the (GA-FDD) Dr Marlan Cole has told the Stabroek Business.
No one anywhere in the world would deny that the strictures that have had to be intermittently inserted and withdrawn by countries in order to try to stave off the worst effects of COVID-19 have imposed, what in many instances are, unbearable pressures on countries and particularly on their economies and their education systems.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Noble Energy Inc shareholders on Friday were expected to approve its sale to Chevron for about $4.2 billion in stock, cementing the first big energy deal since the coronavirus crushed global fuel demand.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell about 4% on Thursday as rising coronavirus cases around the world dampened the demand outlook, and a rise in OPEC output last month also pressured prices.
Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 01, 2020Kitco 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 882’s trading results showed consideration of $39,773,340 from 452,302 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 881’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,210,448 from 41,333 shares traded in 13 transactions.
The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.
Arguably, some of the very best years – the growth years – for agro-processing in Guyana were the five or so years prior to the onset of COVID-19.
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